Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

by E. J. Levy
Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

Love, in Theory: Ten Stories

by E. J. Levy

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Overview

In this funny, brainy, thoroughly engaging debut collection, an award-winning writer looks at romance through the lens of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the information age.

In ten captivating and tender stories, E. J. Levy takes readers through the surprisingly erotic terrain of the intellect, offering a smart and modern take on the age-old theme of love—whether between a man and woman, a man and a man, a woman and a woman, or a mother and a child—drawing readers into tales of passion, adultery, and heartbreak. A disheartened English professor’s life changes when she goes rock climbing and falls for an outdoorsman. A gay oncologist attending his sister’s second wedding ponders dark matter in the universe and the ties that bind us. Three psychiatric patients, each convinced that he is Christ, give rise to a love affair in a small Minnesota town. A Brooklyn woman is thrown out of an ashram for choosing earthly love over enlightenment. A lesbian student of film learns theories of dramatic action the hard way—by falling for a married male professor. Incorporating theories from physics to film to philosophy, from Rational Choice to Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class, these stories movingly explore the heart and mind—shooting cupid’s arrow toward a target that may never be reached.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780820348278
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 03/15/2015
Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series , #49
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 817,899
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

E. J. LEVY is the author of Love, In Theory, which received the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, the New York Times, and Best American Essays and has received a Pushcart Prize and Nelson Algren Finalist Award among other honors. She is also the author of the memoir Amazons: A Love Story and editor of Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Levy teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments xi

The Best Way Not to Freeze 1

Theory of Enlightenment 29

My Life in Theory 55

Rat Choice 76

Small Bright Thing 101

Theory of Transportation 115

The Three Christs of Moose Lake, Minnesota 132

Gravity 147

Theory of the Leisure Class 173

Theory of Dramatic Action 192

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