This haunting and evocative exploration of dreams and disillusionment delves into the dangerous territories where psyches reveal themselves.

How Animals Mate: Stories;Sewanee Writers' Series

Literature & Fiction

Mueller, Daniel

United States

The Overlook Press

A collection of short stories by the acclaimed writer introduces a poet struggling to survive by working in a strip bar, an Aleut girl who begins to challenge her surroundings, and an overweight man who never leaves the house, but knows how to change channels on his neighbor's TV. Reprint.

How Animals Mate: Stories

Contemporary

Most executives do a terrible job of career planning. If this is you, welcome to the club.This book will enable you to solve that problem, and help you gain a clear vision for yourfuture, all the way through to the place where you are no longer working a full-time role. Icall this Portfolio Life. More on this later.Executives are very unique when it comes to career planning. I learned that in 1987 withmy first client, John Paget. He was the CEO of Intelogic Trace, a 4,000-employeecompany providing computer, telecommunications and other electronic equipmentinstallations and support services, with IBM as one of its biggest customers. At that time,I was CEO of MAI, which I later sold to Organizational Leadership and Development. Wewere a boutique organizational design and development (OD) consultancy hired byIntelogic Trace to do team building and change management. I had never heard ofexecutive career coaching before but had been experimenting with our own brand ofexecutive leadership coaching in this brand-new industry called executive coaching.

Executive Portfolio Life: Strategies to Maximize and Leverage Your Career Equity

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

SOLIDleaders

Eleven stories by the author of the critically-acclaimed HOW ANIMALS MATE. Daniel Mueller reveals the distance between our everyday masks and the selves we strain to recognize in them. A boy whose parents live apart decides to model himself after a neighborhood sociopath. A corporate systems analyst attempts to reconcile a homoerotic childhood with his conventional nuclear family. A divorcee dating a rape survivor must admit that what he loves most about her would, in his daughter, completely destroy him. Funny and grim, stylish and provocative, these stories find in disjunction and misalignment unparalleled tension and exquisite grace.

Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey

Literary

Outpost19

A new cycle of stories from the acclaimed author of Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey and How Animals Mate.Anything You Recognize is the exuberant new collection from the acclaimed author of Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey and How Animals Mate. In Mueller's latest, the central cycle of stories follows an upwardly mobile family navigating the late '60s in west Texas, with an adventurous young boy coming face to face with the era's newly blurred lines around sex, race and family. From an inexhaustible storehouse of period details, Mueller sets the unbridled freedoms of bike-riding boyhood against the subtle and not-so-subtle pressures of newly liberated adults -and then adds several stories set years later, including a dreamy backpacker's hilarious fantasies of his would-be girlfriend to scenes from a circle of aging gay artists, reminders of the ever-shifting boundaries we all still face.

Anything You Recognize: Stories