Robin's Work
Books
DO-OVER!
- Little, Brown & Co., 2009
In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments.
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
- Bison Books, 2007
In 1983, an anthropologist announced that the "anthropological find of the century"—the discovery of a "stone age" tribe in the rain forests of the Philippines—had become the "ethnographic hoax of the century." Or had it?
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists
- Longman Publishing, 2003
A collection of "non-traditional" stories from renowned as well as less familiar writers of the past 100 years.
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness
- Graywolf Press, 1998
A recounting of the life of Robin's sister Nola, who died at the age of twenty-five after several years of treatment for schizophrenia.
Turning Life Into Fiction
- Story Press, 1994
- Graywolf Press, 2006
An in-depth manual, with writing exercises on how to convert real life into good storytelling.
The Big Ear (Stories)
- Graywolf Press, 1994
- John F. Blair, 1997
A collection of sixteen stories, with a cast of characters ranging from the queen of England to the last man on earth.
The Last Studebaker
- Graywolf Press, 1992 & 1993
South Bend, Indiana, where the closing of the Studebaker plant years ago has had disastrous consequences for Lois Kulwicki.
All You Can Eat (Stories)
- Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988
In this collection of thirteen short stories, Hemley's characters strive to live with a decency no longer common. They confess to ignorance, or the wrong kind of knowledge, but while they quietly make mistakes, they also make amends.
Articles, essays, and interviews
For a selection of Robin's short fiction, articles, essays, radio appearances and more, visit the Media page.