Description:Robert McAlmon,
editor-writer and expatriate personality (1896-1956), is a vital - and
neglected - literary figure. He published, often first, Gertrude Stein,
Hemingway, Djuna Barnes and Nathanael West. He is known today for his
memoir, "Being Genuises Together" (1938), which was expanded 30 years
later with alternating chapters by his Paris friend Kay Boyle. This
collection offers his mostly unknown short stories -- three deal with
the malaise of post-war Berlin and the fourth is set in his roots of the
American midwest. In an introduction Edward N.S. Lorusso writes, "Let's
hope that today's wise world is ready for his guts and honesty."