Winner of the 1995 Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction, The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories is a collection of 17 short stories, 11 of which are about the practice of law, while the remaining 6 cover various topics, ranging in setting from Warsaw and Prague to Montreal.

The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Komie, Lowell B.

Contemporary

Swordfish-Chicago

The Last Jewish Shortstop in America

The Night Swimmer - A Man in London and Other Stories is a collection of 19 short stories by award-winning author Lowell B. Komie. Set in Chicagos North Shore, London, Israel, Prague, Warsaw, the Florida Keys, Door County and other locales, the stories have a wide range of topics. Three of the stories are Holocaust related, one is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel, two of the stories are about lawyers, and several involve relationships.

The Night Swimmer - A Man in London and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Since the Louis Auchincloss collections of the 1950s and 1960s, there have been few collections of legal short fiction written by a practicing American lawyer outside the genres of crime and legal thriller fiction. Here is a new collection by Lowell B. Komie of Chicago, published to celebrate his fiftieth year in the practice of law. Lowell B. Komie’s first collection of short stories, The Judge’s Chambers, was published by the American Bar Association in 1983. It was the first collection of fiction published by the ABA in its more than 100-year history. His second collection, The Lawyer’s Chambers and Other Stories, published by Swordfish Chicago in 1995, won the Carl Sandburg Award for fiction from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. This new collection of twenty-nine stories, The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, centered in Chicago, brings together many of the stories in those collections with new stories that have been published since the earlier volumes, the latest having been written in 2004.

The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie

Lowell B. Komie

United States

John Levin, a middle-aged, twice-divorced English Literature professor is in Copenhagen where he hopes to change his humdrum life by writing a novel. This plan takes a turn when he meets a sexy young Lithuanian beauty, a tour guide in Copenhagen. Reciprocating his obvious interest she joins him in a Lolita-like affair which escalates even as Levin's obsession with the Holocaust surfaces. For years he has been haunted by the image in a photo he has of a Lithuanian "partisan" who was an executioner of Jews (possibly including Levin's own relatives-thus the obsession) in the beginning of World War II. Levin's plans change when he learns by coincidence that this man is still alive, is a decorated Lithuanian war hero, and lives close by his young Lolita's estranged family in Lithuania. Determined to hunt him down, the action intensifies as they both return to her home and her parents.

Hotel Europejski

Literary

<p>A new collection of fiction, 14 stories published in 2008, by the author of The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie, 29 stories published in 2005. Komie is also the author of The Judge's Chambers, 1983, the first collection of short fiction ever published by the American Bar Association in its more than 100 year history. He is the author of The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories, which won the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. Komie has practiced law in Chicago and Deerfield, Illinois for over 50 years.</p>

A Lawyer's Notes

Following the publication of his latest novel Hotel Europejski in 2007, Chicago writer and attorney Lowell B. Komie returns to the short story. This new collection of 13 stories involves relationships that range from seduction, love, and loneliness, to suicide and violence. They reflect often just the lives of human beings. The wide range of the stories extends to cities, generally quite different, Chicago, New York, Haifa, Montreal, London, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, with urban people as the characters.

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