Bestial noise : the Tin house fiction reader.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

379 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Advance Reading Copy.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Pub., 2003.

Summary:

Bestial Noise showcases today's masters of the short form, including Davis Foster Wallace, Amy Hempel, Mary Gaitskill, Ron Carlson, Jim Shepard, Helen Schulman, Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Davis, along with Tin House discoveries David Schickler, Nancy Reisman, and Julie Benesh. These extraordinary, vital stories are a primer for the current state of cutting edge fiction and confirm why the Village Voice has declared that "Tin House may very well represent the future of literary magazines."

Contents:

Bestial noise / Mary Gaitskill

Jacob's bath / David Schickler

Letter to the funeral parlor / Lydia Davis

Vision / Jonathan Lethem

Illumination / Nancy Reisman

Rana Fegrina / Dylan Landis

Alicia and Emmett with the 17th Lancers at Balaclava / Jim Shepard

Yeh, these stages / James Kelman

The break / Tom Barbash

Inside out / Chris Offutt

Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau

Fiction / Stuart Dybek

Chosen people / Lisa Zeidner

Thaw / Max Ludington

Heaped earth / David Leavitt

Accordion / Aleksandar Hemon

Over boy / Michael Lowenthal

Beach town / Amy Hempel

Evil eye Allen / Ron Carlson

Her husband didn't / Yasunari

Compassion / Dorothy Allison

Red dress / Kevin Canty

Ball / Tara Ison

Blooms / Peter Rock

Interview / Helen Schulman

Habits of happiness / Julie Benesh

We are not friends / Fred G. Leebron

My mother's garden / Katherine Shonk

On his deathbed / David Foster Wallace.

Notes:

Collection of stories from the literary magazine, Tin house.

OCLC:

920474795