Author

Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and winner of the California Book Award. His nonfiction book On Top of the World was a New York Times Bestseller (#8). His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Narrative, StoryQuarterly, One Story, VQR, Men’s Journal, The New York Times, Bookforum, The Believer and other publications. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts. [2011]

CONTRIBUTIONS

34.2 Cover. Cover Art: Contemporary Romeo by Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

Fiction

Jul 17 2011

Stay up with Me

Henry is in the part of the dream where his father carries him piggyback through the shoulder-high waves. His father’s T-shirt is soaked through, and the salt water is making the cut on Henry’s elbow sting, when a woman’s voice calls out, “Henry . . . Henry.”