Emily Doyle Books In Order

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Emily Doyle is a successful published author.

She is known to readers for writing the short story collection titled Please Don’t Touch the Body. She also has written work that has been featured in such publications as The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

Emily has also gotten different awards and fellowships. These extend to the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award, the Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship, and the H.W. Hill Scholarship.

The author resides in Los Angeles. She teaches at U.C. Riverside.

Please Don’t Touch the Body is a short story collection by Emily Doyle. This is referred to as a ‘magnificent debut’ by Laila Lalami, a novel that looks into different themes that include community, loneliness, repression, and religion, as well as the pain and the pleasure that womanhood brings.

There are some books out there that only could have been written by a certain author, and this is one of them. At times irreverent, at times tender, these are eleven stories that bend genres and have their own concern and fascination when it comes to the power of being alive today and the devastation that comes along with it.

In the first story of the collection, a Japanese woman is able to discover healing through living a secret double life working as a sex advice columnist. This comes after being fetishized courtesy of her white husband for decades.

In a different story, Ronald Reagan gets reincarnated once more as a puppy. He then has to deal with being squeezed as well as dropped and controlled by his young queer owner. In a different story, a young lady is contending with the various rules that she learned while growing up in her religious childhood, the freedoms that come along with a more liberal life, and what her desires are as she goes on vacation with her long-term boyfriend.

These days more than ever a good short story collection is something to be prized! Emily Doyle has brought together some wonderful stories here that fans of high quality short stories will not want to miss out on. They are emotionally rich and impart so much about who this fresh voice in fiction is. Get on board with this new writer in the literary world now and you won’t have to catch up later. Inventive and talented, Emily Doyle is one of those writers out there that you want to watch!