Ghost Dance in Berlin

Peter Wortsman writes short stories, plays, travelogues, essays and poetry, and also translates from the German, which he considers another form of border crossing. He is the author of A Modern Way to Die, a book of short fiction, and Burning Words, a play produced in 2006 at the Northampton Center for the Arts in Northampton, Mass., and slated for production in Pforzheim, Germany, in 2014. His travel pieces have run in major American newspapers and been featured four years in a row in Travelers' Tales' The Best Travel Writing. A 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, he was the recipient of the Solas Awards' 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year.

A Foreword * My Winterreise * The Vectors of Alexanderplatz * Erinnerungen * A Gift * Of Sublime Ecstasy and Guttural Disgust * Dietrich Undressed * Poultry Epiphany * Wurst Lust * Walking on Water * The Return of the Frog King, or Iron Henry * Berlin-Unbekannt/Berlin-Unknown * The Museum of Things * Grischa * Professors of the Pavement * The Publisher * Alexanderplatz Revisited * But Where Were the Nazis? * Spring Awakening * In Search of Lost Shadows * Recalibrating Time and Space * The Phantom Flash * Protected