Upright beasts : stories / Lincoln Michel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michel, Lincoln, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Minneapolis] : Coffee House Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Praise for Lincoln Michel: "Lincoln Michel is one of contemporary literary culture's greatest natural resources."--Justin Taylor, Vice Time passes unexpectedly or, perhaps, inexactly at the school. It's hard to remember what semester we are supposed to be in. Several of the clocks still operate, but they don't show the same time. The red bells, affixed in every room, erupt several times each day, yet the intervals between the disruptions wax and wane with an unknown algorithm. The windows are obscured by construction paper murals. Consequently, the sun rises and falls in complete ignorance of those of us attending the school. Many of us participated in the decorations in some lost point of childhood. A few of us still have dried glue under our fingernails. In the room I sit in now, the windows are covered with a glitter and glue reenactment of the colonization of Roanoke by Sir Walter Raleigh. Outside of the window, who knows?Children go to school long after all the teachers have disappeared, a man manages an apartment complex of attempted suicides, and a couple navigates their relationship in the midst of a zombie attack. In these short stories, we are the upright beasts, doing battle with our darker, weirder impulses as the world collapses around us.Lincoln Michel's work has appeared in BOMB, Oxford American, Tin House, the Believer, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. A founding editor of the literary magazine Gigantic, Michel also serves as an online editor for Electric Literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Upright beasts. Our education

If it were anyone else

The river trick

Little girls by the side of the pool

The room inside my father's room

Almost recess

Our new neighborhood

North American mammals. Filling pools

Hike

The deer in Virginia

Halfway home to somewhere else

some notes on my brother's brief travels

What you need to know about the weathervane

Things left outside

Familiar creatures. Lawn dad

My life in the bellies of beasts

The soldier

The head bodyguard holds his head in his hands

The mayor's plan

Colony

Routine

Everybody who's anybody

Megafauna. What we have surmised about the John Adams incarnation

Dark air

Getting there nonetheless.

Notes:

A collection of stories.

Title page contains mirror image title

ISBN:

9781566894180

1566894182

OCLC:

905344111