Fiction. In this wildily imaginative display of storytelling, an obsessive book editor abandons the pressures of his professional life and seeks contemporary Bohemia in the Uber-rational city of Frankfurt--accompanied by his enigmativ girlfriend, their barkless basenji dog, and an unpublishable manuscript of questionable origin and multiple voices. That follows is a feisty head-on collision of fiction and reality. Anyone deep in a tortured relationship will love the bittersweet conflict between domesticity and the pursuit of an artful like. FLYING FISH "contains passages of very fine writing, brilliant juxtapositions, and deeply moving meditations..."--Library Journal.

David Applefield founded Frank in 1983 and has continued to publish the journal in Paris ever since. Author of two novels, Once Removed (Mosaic Press, 1997) and On a Flying Fish (Mosaic Press, Fall 2001), he is also written Paris Inside Out (Globe Pequot Press, 2000), and The Unofficial Guide to Paris (Hungry Minds, 2001), and publishes the web site www.paris-anglo.com. Aside from specializing in marketing and publishing strategies for cultural content, his advertising and promotional projects often take him to French-speaking Africa, where he coordinates publishing supplements for The Financial Times and The International Herald Tribune. Applefield lives and works in Montreuil-sous-Bois.