The Widow's Boy

"I don't know of anyone handling the American language with a hotter torch than what Dev Hathaway uses in his best stories. Even in some of the decidedly uncompromising, shall we say unconventional, stories, I keep reading, just to hear the electricity sizzle, to smell the sparks." -Rick Bass "Dev Hathaway is the David Lynch of short fictioneers, in possession of a magician's hat full of voices and illusions. Secret, strange feelings, their phrasing classical or jazzy, together produce a tone of all-abiding serenity, like what you hear in ballads and legends." -Bob Shacochis Dev Hathaway taught English and writing at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania until his death in 2005. He is the author of numerous numerous essays and two short story collections, " The Widow's Boy" and "Skylarking on Honeysuckle Road."