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  • EPHEMERA: COLLECTED WRITINGS, VOL 3

EPHEMERA: COLLECTED WRITINGS, VOL 3

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JACK CADY
  • November 2025   978-1-958880-28-9
  • Series cover design by Jennifer Tough
  • trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 186 pages
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​In this third volume of collected short work, Jack Cady shows his mastery of narrative and uniqueness. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, and many others, Cady captures the feelings and fleeting moments that seem far beyond the reach of mortals who don’t have the patience to look.

Ephemera delivers stories that demonstrate Cady’s Western spiritual paradigm. These include “The Priest,” written after a study of the journal of George Fox, and “The Sons of Noah,” about members of a secluded pious community living in close harmony with primordial forces interrupted by an eruption of Old Testament violence. Then there are tales such as his 1965 Atlantic Monthly story “The Burning,” where Cady introduced a character that would appear in his 1981 novel Singleton.

Cady produced some of his finest work in short fiction. The tales within prove that he was truly a breathtaking writer.

Introduction by Mark Teppo, author of Longspur
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“A remarkable talent for translating familiar life rhythms of ordinary people into moving and meaningful writing. His style is direct, simple, and natural.”
     — Publishers Weekly

“Jack Cady’s knack for golden sentences is an alchemy any other writer has to admire.”
     — Ivan Doig

“An exceptional writer.”
     — Joyce Carol Oates

“His structural control and the laconic richness of his style establish Cady in the front ranks of contemporary writers.”
     — Library Journal

“A writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling.”
     — Peter Straub

“[Jack Cady is] a lasting voice in modern American literature.”
     — Atlanta Constitution

  • ​ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Cady won The Atlantic Monthly “First” award in 1965 for his story, “The Burning.” He continued writing and authored nearly a dozen novels, one book of critical analysis of American literature, and more than fifty short stories. Over the course of his literary career, he won the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, the National Literary Anthology Award, the Washington State Governor’s Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Prior to a lengthy career in education, Jack worked as a tree high climber, a Coast Guard seaman, an auctioneer, and a long-distance truck driver. He held teaching positions at the University of Washington, Clarion College, Knox College, the University of Alaska at Sitka, and Pacific Lutheran University. He spent many years living in Port Townsend, Washington.
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