Lawrence Ianni: 5 books

Henry James Ferguson becomes gravely depressed by the end of his relationship with his longtime partner, Trevor Schmitz, who leaves him because a new lover has the means to further Schmitzs career as a sculptor. After several months of residential care, Ferguson becomes delusional at the facility...

The reporters and columnists of the Pauliapolis Sentinel fret over the implications for them personally of the managements employment of a market research firm. Their concern is that main stream reader interests will favor the scores of the writers of some subjects. Sports columnist Abe Fuller asserts...

Joe Bell has achieved a stable career as an effective copy writer in a large San Francisco advertising agency, but he has no interest in pursuing advancement into a position as an account executive or agency management. His current romantic interest, who has exactly those career goals, loses interest...

Threatened with the ending of his teaching career unless he publishes scholarly work soon, Dawson Goldsmith embarks of writing a literary biography of his uncle, who became a successful and noteworthy novelist after a career in journalism. He discovers that his uncle was a man with secrets that not...

Before the latest reunion of his circle of university friends who have gathered periodically to renew acquaintance since their graduation over thirty years ago, Tony Rocco is asked to deliver a eulogy of the friend whom this group has come to regard with unusual respect and admiration for his humanity,...