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10 best books like A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish (George Saunders): You Think That's Bad, Watering Heaven, Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder, Thirst, Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions, I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Trampoline: An Anthology, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge

You Think That's Bad
AuthorJim Shepard
ISBN0307594823
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from...
Watering Heaven
AuthorPeter Tieryas
What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited to a party in Beijing but had to make up a brand-new identity for six weeks?

Peter Tieryas Liu's Watering Heaven is a travelogue of and requiem for the American dream in all its...
Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0486432017
Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote:...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions
AuthorRobert Coover
ISBN0393356647
Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as “a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America.” Here, in this selection of his...
I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories
AuthorJohn Haskell
ISBN0312421869
A bewitching collection of short fiction--haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life. In "Dream of a Clean Slate," Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; "The Judgement of Psycho," probes the sexual dynamic of...
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
AuthorRuss Kick
ISBN1609803809
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
Trampoline: An Anthology
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520046
Hard to write a review of a collection of stories from different authors, as there's such a difference in quality. The longer stories tended to be the weakest; I couldn't even finish Jackson's insufferable, interminable "Crowd of Bone", and "Insect Dreams" was a slog, despite a good premise and setting....
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories
AuthorRick Moody
ISBN0316706280
(view spoiler)[When I was young, I read too much too soon. This was probably one of them.

The inscription on the flap of the paperback copy of this (which I intend to hungrily peddle today to the local bookmongers before an evening spent in the kitchen of a restaurant whose name literally translates...
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
AuthorJames Tadd Adcox
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge is a short encyclopedia, full of entries that waver between fiction and memoir, poetry and prose, realism and irrealism.

Construction workers build Indiana’s first official mountain. The entrails of vacuum cleaners are examined for hints of a dark...
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
AuthorMark Crick
ISBN0151012830
I needed a table at Maxim’s, a hundred bucks, and a gorgeous blonde; what I had was a leg of lamb and no clues. I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner’s handshake. I took out a knife and cut the lamb into pieces. Feeling the blade in my hand I sliced an onion, and before I knew what I was...
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN0312863500
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered here in this volume...
A Free Man
AuthorMichel Basilières
ISBN1770412336
An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel

A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s also a boy-meets-girl story of the worst kind and a time travel story about a future where the...
Welcome to the Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the New American Rome
AuthorKen Dahl
ISBN1934620025
Welcome to the Dahl House is a collection of Ken Dahl’s slice-of-life comics from 1997-2007, most of which are really crap – and I’m a fan of lo-fi sad bastard indie comics!

Most of the short stories feature Gordon Smalls, a pathetic thirtysomething loser with no job or money or any kind...
Overnight to Many Distant Cities
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0140075801
As others have said -- a more even Barthelme, with fewer risks, fewer peaks or outright failures. These stories are odd in more normal ways that his earlier more audacious experiments in form and content. Peculiar characters, stylized dialogue, bits of incident that wouldn't show up in a realist story,...
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0679776249
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
This Shape We're In
AuthorJonathan Lethem
ISBN0970335520
The novella is about a former General with a drinking problem sent by his shrewish wife to rescue their son from chanting as a cultist for something called the Third Eye. Oh yes, and they're all microscopic humanish creatures living inside a horse. So the general travels to the eye where his son is and along...
McSweeney's #28
AuthorDave Eggers
In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney’s 28 explores the state of the fable—those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn’t see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can’t...
The Cheat Code for God Mode
AuthorAndy de Fonseca
ISBN1621051269
In a world where humanoid bulls patrol the street, wormholes and portals make up children's playgrounds, and flying turtles produce the most delicious bacon, Margy Plum and Victor Vance are quite content with playing old school video games and designing 8-bit chickens. When they find a cheat code...
Henry & Glenn Forever
AuthorIgloo Tornado
ISBN9781934620
Starring notorious muscle-bound punk/metal dudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from soft rockers Hall and Oates), Henry & Glenn Forever is a love story to end all love stories. Henry and Glenn are very good “friends”; they are also roommates. Daryl and John live next door;...
Poppies in Translation
AuthorSujata Bhatt
ISBN1847770207
Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua. Many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt’s many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal and the allegorical; certainties are undone in an open-ended quest. A Chinese cook ignores a predatory...
Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation
AuthorAvi
ISBN0152057900
Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is uncovered--all within this eclectic collection from master storyteller Avi. By turns chilling, ethereal, and surreal, these thought-provoking tales...
Darkness Ad Infinitum: Villipede Horror Anthology I
AuthorShawna L. Bernard
ISBN0692208992
On Sale Now! Villipede Publications' first horror and dark speculative fiction anthology will tenderly caress your amygdalae and viciously twist your imagination. With fifteen short stories and four poems from both established and upcoming authors, this haunting collection will force readers...
Mind Breaths
AuthorAllen Ginsberg
ISBN0872860922
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade. Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom’s hopeless...
Opowieści z Wilżyńskiej Doliny
AuthorAnna Brzezińska
ISBN8391790436
Fantasy dla dorosłych. Napisane znakomitym, stylizowanym językiem, pełne przewrotnego humoru i zaskakujących point opowiadania z pogranicza groteski i baśni. Inspirowane folklorem i tradycją sowizdrzalską teksty są zabawą z literackimi archetypami, jednocześnie zaś gorzką...
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