New Sudden Fiction Pa

by Shapard,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393328011
• ISBN10: 0393328015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Responding to America's love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select these sixty stories'”each under 2,000 words, each with its own element of surprise, whether traditional, experimental, humorous, moving, or magical. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, such as Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Teolinda Gers'œo, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff. Zdravka Evitmova conjures blood drops that cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public relations for crows. Juan José Milás leads an amnesiac husband to an affair in the candlelit darkness of a cathedral with his wife. Students and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note	p. 13
Other Persons	p. 21
A History of Everything, Including You	p. 25
The Raft	p. 29
The Red Fox Fur Coat	p. 34
Loving the Dead	p. 40
Powder	p. 47
Water Names	p. 52
Berlin Wall Piece	p. 57
The Rememberer	p. 63
Homage	p. 68
Tomorrow's Bird	p. 73
The Palmist	p. 78
Blood	p. 85
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear	p. 90
Footnote	p. 95
We Ate the Children Last	p. 101
My Lawrence	p. 105
Feeling Good, Feeling Fine	p. 111
Pompeii	p. 117
Ma, a Memoir 122
Essential Things	p. 127
Seven Pieces of Severance	p. 131
The Wine Doctor	p. 137
In Reference to Your Recent Communications	p. 142
Following the Notes	p. 150
The Minimalist	p. 153
I Shot the Sheriff	p. 159
Before the Train and After	p. 164
Rosa Blanca	p. 171
The Puppies	p. 177
Before and Again	p. 182
A Bad Joke	p. 189
Consumed	p. 196
Why Men Quit: An Intellectual Inquiry	p. 201
Delicate Touch	p. 206
Country Miles	p. 212
Scroll	p. 216
Swimming for Shore	p. 222
Mud	p. 229
Feelers	p. 234
The Party	p. 238
My Kid's Dog	p. 244
Power Lines	p. 251
Incarnations of Burned Children	p. 255
Inclusions	p. 259
Good, Brother	p. 264
Reply All	p. 268
Escort	p. 277
The Gold Lunch	p. 281
doughnut Shops and Doormen	p. 288
A Piece of Sky	p. 293
Stolen Chocolates	p. 299
Juan the Cell Phone Salesman	p. 305
Nap Time	p. 310
Audio Tour	p. 316
Paper Slippers	p. 320
Crossroad	p. 326
Determinants	p. 332
How I Left Ned	p. 336
Moscow	p. 341
About the Authors	p. 345
Credits	p. 363
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