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Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions

10 best books like Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (Robert Coover): Tales of Old Earth, The Plains, A Postmodern Belch, Textermination: A Novel, Island People, Impossible Object, A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish, Night Soul and Other Stories, Take Five, Aberration of Starlight

Tales of Old Earth
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1583940561
From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted offering by one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers' minds far beyond ordinary limits. Nineteen tales from Michael Swanwick's best short fiction of the past decade are gathered here for...
The Plains
AuthorGerald Murnane
ISBN1930974280
'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole

'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review

'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzard

'Deeply mysterious yet grounded in familiar, everyday...
A Postmodern Belch
AuthorM.J. Nicholls
ISBN1291980342
This edition of A Postmodern Belch has been discredited. Pending article 9.6 of the Creative Commons Licence, portions of this work contain improperly brushed syllables taken from a 1978 edition of A Postmodern Belch and inelegantly buffered clauses taken from a 1997 edition of A Postmodern Belch....
Textermination: A Novel
AuthorChristine Brooke-Rose
ISBN0811212165
In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...
Island People
AuthorColeman Dowell
ISBN1564780937
In this complex novel, a gay man who has fled the violence of the city for an island retreat spends his time keeping a journal and writing stories. He invents a female alter-ego who haunts him, as does the ghost of the murderer who occupied his house in the 19th century; ultimately these hauntings are manifestations...
Impossible Object
AuthorNicholas Mosley
ISBN1564784657
"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended."

In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love...
A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish
AuthorGeorge Saunders
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
Night Soul and Other Stories
AuthorJoseph McElroy
ISBN1564786021
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction...
Take Five
AuthorD. Keith Mano
ISBN1564781933
Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing "Jesus 2001", what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather, best known for his movie "The Clap That Took Over the World"), descendent of a wealthy...
Aberration of Starlight
AuthorGilbert Sorrentino
ISBN1564784398
Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments, and rare pleasures of family, romance, and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression. As the novel's perspective shifts to each of the four primary...
Last Stories and Other Stories
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
ISBN0670015970
Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central
 
In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death,...
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
AuthorOsama Alomar
ISBN0811226077
Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind’s creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate...
Inside Madeleine
AuthorPaula Bomer
ISBN1616953098
From the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with...
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811206807
Bi-Partisan Preview

I was introduced to Delmore Schwartz's writing from two different perspectives in the mid-70's.

It might come as little surprise that these introductions had to do with passions that persist to this day: music, literature and politics.

Firstly, I...
Ooga-Booga: Poems
AuthorFrederick Seidel
ISBN0374226555
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,
rage, and desire.


Here I am, not a practical man,
But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,
Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,
Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,
Despairing...
La parte inventada
AuthorRodrigo Fresán
¿Cómo funciona la mente de un escritor? La parte inventada busca respuesta a esa pregunta adentrándose en la mente de un escritor que trata de escribir su propia historia. O de reescribirla a su manera. La historia de alguien que conoció cierto éxito hace unos años, en el siglo y milenio pasado;...
Behind the Moon
AuthorMadison Smartt Bell
ISBN0872867366
When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave, and it takes two days for her...
The Sacred Era
AuthorYoshio Aramaki
ISBN0816699860
The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving...
The Messiah of Stockholm
AuthorCynthia Ozick
ISBN0394756940
In Stockholm of 1980 or so a man is living in a tiny cold water flat. He writes reviews for a local newspaper of modest circulation. He is a refugee from war-torn Poland and, he says, the son of that Polish genius -- shot by a Nazi in the streets of Drohobycz Poland in 1942 -- Bruno Schulz. He is obsessed with...
Women in Bed: Nine Stories
AuthorJessica Keener
ISBN1611880750
Jessica Keener’s extraordinary debut novel, Night Swim captivated readers with its eloquence, insight, and humanity. “This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice,” said Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Visit from...
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