The Week
Published on 24. March 2026
978-0-9953483-5-6 (ISBN)
Description
Straddling the zone between fantasy and imagination, between fiction and essay, The Week presents models of minds shaped by the twenty-first century American realities that they also construct. The stories are unconventional in their arcs and uses of characterization, and in their foregrounding of the instabilities in representational practices; they obsess over life and death, female sexuality and family, the economy and language and try out various forms inadequate to their expression.
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Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, and Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project). Ruocco also works pseudonymously as Joanna Lowell, the author of numerous romance novels. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University.
