Time: The Present

Time: The Present collects the best short stories of one of the finest

American writers of the 1930s, Tess Slesinger.

An Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Tess Slesinger was one of the most innovative and original short story writers of her generation.

She dealt with issues of sexuality, economics, race, and the complex

relationships between men and women in and out of marriage that

remain highly relevant today.

Slesinger’s stories can be satirical, comic, bittersweet, or tragic—but most of all, always immediate. As Vivian Gornick puts it in her eloquent

introduction, Slesinger’s ‘feeling for life’s unavoidable sorrow remains

haunting.’ Taking great stylistic risks, Slesinger freed her stories of the

constraints of period and place and created works that are timeless in

their impact and approach.

Time: The Present restores Slesinger’s rightful place as one of the greats of the 20th century short story form. It includes numerous stories from The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines collected here for the first time.

Time: The Present continues Recovered Books’ mission to bring long forgotten books of exceptional merit and resounding relevance to

today’s readers.