This acclaimed collection of short stories from a talented young Pushcart Prize-winning writer provides wickedly funny, in-your-face contortions of all facets of our popular culture. ...

Nikolai Gogol's short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd. Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the greatest of friends--until the day they begin a foolish quarrel that culminates in that very worst of insults: "And you, Ivan Ivanovich, are a goose." From that moment on, not another word is spoken between them as they ...

Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War II France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals. ...

The legendary eccentric English writer (1883-1950) presents an unforgettable cast of characters starring in a collection of gem-like works of short fiction. ...

Winner of the 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, these stories explore the detours, potholes, and speed bumps along the road of life and the struggle to get behind the wheel and take control.
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The second handsome volume of three in the complete collected works of Paul Metcalf contains hilariously scandalous tales of the founding of Washington, DC, harrowing vignettes of wounded Civil War soldiers, and poetic tributes to Willie Mays, Edgar Allen Poe, John Wilkes Booth, and the quirky names of America's small towns. "Collected Works, Volume Two" is comprised of the complete texts of I-57, ZIP ODES, U.S. DEPT. of the Interior, Willie's ...

In this new book, Mark Richard again proves himself to be the poet laureate of people the world often overlooks: the orphaned poor, the outcast, the deceived, and the unrelieved. With stylistic brilliance and an unsurpassed flair for the surreal, he renders his characters with grace and compassion, while transcending their human tragedies with wicked humor. Richard has been rightly compared to Flannery O'Connor for his stark moral vision, but his ...

Guatemala's tropics, Ohio's lazy suburbs, Florida's down-and-out Ybor City, Madrid's narrow streets and late tapa bar nights -- what Tom Abrams does with all these locales is almost as luxurious as what he does with the characters inhabiting them. Readers familiar with A Bad Piece of Luck will once more appreciate the down-and-dirty realism Abrams employs, but will find an added element . . . kismet? Well, that implies love, and while dimestore ...

In the tradition of William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, and Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, here are four interlinked cases from the manuscripts of the late Professor Palmer Hopkins, correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft and friend of August Derleth.<P>From the Daimones Chtholou lying behind the powwows of Pennsylvania witch doctors, to the devils and lightless angels invoked by the late Stephen Vincent Benet, from the unquiet spirits of the ...

Guatemala's tropics, Ohio's lazy suburbs, Florida's down-and-out Ybor City, Madrid's narrow streets and late tapa bar nights -- what Tom Abrams does with all these locales is almost as luxurious as what he does with the characters inhabiting them. Readers familiar with A Bad Piece of Luck will once more appreciate the down-and-dirty realism Abrams employs, but will find an added element . . . kismet? Well, that implies love, and while dimestore ...