Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction

7 best books like Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction (Philip Stevick): Babyji, The Collected Poems, The Wild Iris, Bellocq's Ophelia, The Fairies: Photographic Evidence of the Existence of Another World, Tabloid Dreams, Good Faeries Bad Faeries

Babyji

Author	Abha Dawesar
ISBN	1400034566

Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and...

The Collected Poems

Author	Sylvia Plath
ISBN	0808595040

The aim of the present complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to...

The Wild Iris

Author	Louise Glück
ISBN	0880013346

I had a Creative Writing teacher who asked me once if I would like anyone other than myself to read my poetry. When I answered, “Yes,” she advised me to make the suffering in my poems more universal and less personal.

Poetry is obviously personal, but she explained to me that, if I had a husband...

Bellocq's Ophelia

Author	Natasha Trethewey
ISBN	1555973590

Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association

In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the subject of Bellocq's Ophelia,...

The Fairies: Photographic Evidence of the Existence of Another World

Author	Suza Scalora
ISBN	0060282347

An archeologist, a woman of science and logic, always believed fairies were the stuff of storybooks. That was before she made the discovery of a lifetime. After learning the secrets behind locating and luring these magical creatures out from hiding, she vows to travel all over the world photographing...

Tabloid Dreams

Author	Robert Olen Butler
ISBN	0805055894

Robert Olen Butler's last short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, was a keen, piercing book told largely in the voice of Vietnamese immigrants to America. To say that his new collection is a departure is an understatement: Butler has taken actual headlines from the more outrageous...

Good Faeries Bad Faeries

Author	Brian Froud
ISBN	0684847817

"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries",...