TED
CLEARY is the author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations. The novellas are vivid, memorable, short:
a skillful reader can absorb them in about two liesurely (but highly focused) hours. Somewhat similar to intense movies.
Song of the Cicada
(about an infatuated teenager during a long hot summer in Queens, NYC):
https://www.amazon.com/Song-Cicada-Flushing-Araby-Stories/dp/B0CM7B5GPX
At the End of the World
(about, well, the big bangaroo that will end it all -- when there will be much bigger things to worry about than the SAT:
https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Meta-Loco-Narrative-flat/dp/1962895033/ref=sr_1_1
Snapshots of Belarus / Russian
Tales
Realistic and surrealistic travel sketches from the forner USSR and Soviet bloc.
Very short, readable in 30 minutes or less.
https://www.amazon.com/Snapshots-Belarus-Incidents-Observations-Vignettes-ebook/dp/B0D6KYSTWW
Poetry translations include REBOBINANDO, by Patricia
Fernandez-Pacheco, translated from the original Spanish by Ted Cleary
Forthcoming essay collections may include The Art of Divining,
sharing insights into the creative process and techniques for finding the secret stories within. Useful for students seeking
to find more vivid and authentic details to electrify and transform their sometimes dull and formulaic personal essays.
