Fiction. In the San Francisco of the new millennium, nineteen-year-old Roxanne lives in a closet that costs all her paycheck and half her tips. It's temporary. A generation older, Martin is similarly untethered. He is breaking up with irrepressible ...

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Fiction. A collection of sly, seductive, stories that establish Schwarzenberger as a conjuror of the cautionary tale. These are portraits of guys we all know, for better or worse, the querulous and the quixotic, the angry and the hilarious, the resi...

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Literary Nonfiction. For over a decade, regular columns from Faro's garden have appeared in the East Bay Monthly and in the San Francisco Chronicle, where the author wrestles with his garden as Jacob wrestled with the angel, pinning it down and winn...

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THE TRICK CLOCK is an excursion in twenty-four stories through varied landscapes formed and sometimes distored by the pressures of time and the desire for human connection. As in Schwarzenberger's previous collection, HAPLESS MALES, these tales, mos...

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