.
Praise for Richard Burgin

'The motley psyches in Mr. Burgin’s gallery expose themselves in eerily funny monologues . . . But it is not their strangeness alone that fascinates . . . Rather, it is the way they twist messages from a saner world to fit their peculiar neuroses. And that is why Mr. Burgin’s stories are so dexterous. In them, he has paused near a border, shifting his weight nervously, sizing up the wild, surrealistic landscape that lies just a few paces ahead.' 
The New York Times Book Review

'One of America's most distinctive storytellers...I can think of no one of his genertation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy.'
The Philadelphia Inquirer

'Without showiness or fuss, Burgin writes gorgeous evocative prose...A writer at once elegant and disturbing, Burgin is among our finest artists of love at its most desperate.'
The Chicago Tribune

'There is something electrifying, even addictive, in the writing of Richard Burgin." 
Le Monde
richardburgin

"Richard Burgin’s tales capture the strangeness of a world that is simultaneously frightening and reassuring, and in the contemporary American short story nothing quite resembles his singular voice." 
                        -The Boston Globe

"What Edgar Allan Poe did for the psychotic soul, Richard Burgin does for the deeply neurotic who pass among us disguised as so seemingly 'normal,' we may mistake them for ourselves."
 - Joyce Carol Oates, 
The Daily Beast/Newsweek 
Coming Spring Fall 2018:

A Thousand Natural Shocks:
New and collected stories

Goliad Press






“Richard Burgin’s writing is the most lucid and daring of any writer writing today.” 
-Stephen Dixon

Author of A Thousand Natural Shocks, a new collection of stories out October 2018, and many other books