“In refusing easy consolations, Fromberg has created a memoir that shines like polished bone.” —Patricia Eakins, author of The Hungry Girls and Other Stories
“Fragmented yet unified, direct yet elusive, How to Walk with Steve is a vivid memoir about family and geography, obligation and freedom. Fromberg has a remarkable ability to inject meaning into silence, into the cracks between sections, into all the things that remain unsaid.” —Brett Biebel, author of 48 Blitz
An air conditioner falls from a New York City apartment window onto a woman’s head. Two dozen people contract botulism after eating patty melt sandwiches at a shopping mall restaurant in central Illinois. A Vermont attorney sues to control medical decisions for a disabled New York infant. Ronald Reagan wears a robe and slippers to match the interior design of his White House residence.
“With uncanny wit and a pointillist painter’s eye for detail, Gee, That Was Fun eschews the grand episodes on which historical fiction so often relies, reminding us that the fabric of our lives and the trajectory of our country, for good or ill, are composed of the smaller moments: the daily decisions made and not made, the tiny revelations, the ordinary failures and triumphs. A fascinating and endlessly readable novel in vignettes.” —C. Matthew Smith, author of Twentymile
Essays and stories, including “My Life as the Wife of Harrison Ford,” “Ringo in the Time of COVID,” “A Conversation with My Dead Father about The French Connection (the book, not the movie),” “Two Weeks After David Cassidy’s 22nd Birthday,” and “Future City, Illinois.”
“As we learned in his memoir How to Walk with Steve, Fromberg possesses rare chronic patience—which, in turn, enables him to be an ultimate observer. Now, in this collection of dissecting essays, we’re reminded of how masterfully he can transpose his perceptions into essential commentary, at once able to welcome and scrutinize minutia any lesser writer would overlook entirely.” —Gabriel Hart, author of Fallout from Our Asphalt Hell