Books
Separation Anxiety
Separation Anxiety Disorder is commonly associated with infancy and toddler-hood, but according to the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual-5 it occurs in youth younger than eighteen (persistent and lasting at least four weeks) and in adults (requiring a duration of six months). Of course, it does! Fear of loss is the mother of neurosis, but so it can often be the catalyst for useful introspection and meaningful change.
In “My Small Goals” the captain of a SWAT (team) is sidelined by PTSD and depression, results of a painful divorce. He embarks on a simple regimen to regain his confidence and is surprised by where his practice leads him.
In the title story a mental health caseworker falls in love, and with love comes terror and a journey back to forgotten episodes in his early childhood.
In “An Ordinary Love Story” a husband and wife are separated when the man is ordered by the court into a treatment program. Both must dig deep to recover what was good in their marriage.
Though the eighteen stories in Separation Anxiety exhibit a wide range of tones and styles, all throw light on a condition as pervasive and invisible as the air we breathe.
Publishing date: October 2021
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Occupy & Other Love Stories
"Chekhov, Joyce, Borges, William Trevor, Grace Paley, Alice Munro all give us epiphanies, fleeting wonders of life as in no other form but poetry ... I think Dan Coshnear's book has that unity, that every story in Occupy & Other Love Stories is held together by a diffused, long sigh of regret for dreams lost or deferred, much like last year's Occupy movement the title story and collection are named for."
— Barbara Baer, The Redwood Coast Review
“Years from now a Ph.D. student writing about the culture of the Occupy Movement will surely point to Occupy and Other Love Stories as an example of the fiction that emerged from the protests against Wall Street immorality and criminality. It’s also fiction that stands on its own merits without ties to Occupy or any social movement.”
— Jonah Raskin, The Rag Blog
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Jobs & Other Preoccupations
“A fierce book, edgy, urgent and unconsolingly honest. Daniel Coshnear writes… with mordant wit and the kind of emotional exactitude that clear a reader’s vision the way a sharp new flavor clears and challenges the palate. He is a thrilling discovery.”
— Rosellen Brown
“Dan Coshnear’s first collection of stories is wise and true in the manner of Walt Whitman, Paul Robeson, and Woodie Guthrie. Dan understands America and its preoccupations with work and love, conflict and joy, and everything in between. He writes with an assurance that makes me believe that language can still save the world.”
—Maxine Chernoff
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Homesick Redux
"Homesickness attacks the lungs first. . ." It is a loneliness. Daniel Coshnear takes difficult matters of the heart and weaves a beautiful nonlinear storyline through the life of Reggie, a young husband and father, whose mother is dying. To put one's finger on home and what causes homesickness, the sadness that causes us to long for someplace that will make everything better. Come to find out home is love. And "love is a two-stroke engine" of perfect compression and combustion with a great deal of exhaust and fumes in the mix. A delight to read."
— Raleigh Rand, author of Brightleaf
"Homesick Redux is dense with richness, with moments of delight and agony (some of which make us wince or even flinch). Dan's voice speaks to you the way your best friend does, or should: honestly, to the point of pain; self-effacingly, with dark humor to leaven the pathos; with empathy for the gravity of our lives and how it pins us down -- it is even-handed and true."
— David Porter author of Protracted Adolescence.
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