Athens Drift
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Deliberately disturbing yet deeply delightful stories rooted in the struggle for freedom.
In the decade since the publication of her radical, philosophical thriller So Much Pretty and its surprising embrace by the publishing mainstream, Cara Hoffman has refused to compromise. Her essays and short fiction locate resistance to authority and the power of imagination to change the world in some of the harshest, and most unlikely of places.
This collection includes an extended essay about political organizing and street fights with the police in the anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia, Athens, a short story about a most unusual animal sanctuary, fierce new flash fiction, a profile of The Bread & Puppet Theater, what Kropotkin has to do with singing frogs, and of course a classically outspoken interview with the late Terry Bisson.
Cara Hoffman
Cara Hoffman is the author of three critically acclaimed novels for adults: Running (a New York Times Editor's Choice), Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize), and So Much Pretty (a New Yorker Books Pick and New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011). She is also the author of the popular middle grade novel Bernard Pepperlin (a Junior Library Guild Selection). She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Paris Review, Bookforum, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.
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