First Things First: Selected Stories

This collection brings together eighteen stories by Diane Schoemperlen, drawn from her early work and from pieces that never appeared in a book before. Several of the selections are seeing print in book form for the first time. The stories are inventive in form and play with narrative structure, moving between comedy and emotional depth. Taken together, they show the range of a writer who has produced twelve books, the most recent being By the Book: Stories & Pictures.