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The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

10 best books like The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (Steven Millhauser): You Think That's Bad, Fancies and Goodnights, Things that Fall from the Sky, The New Yorker Stories, Thirst, Partial List of People to Bleach, Without a Hero, Meet Me in the Moon Room, Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

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...
Fancies and Goodnights
AuthorJohn Collier
ISBN1590170512
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters...
Things that Fall from the Sky
AuthorKevin Brockmeier
ISBN0375727698
Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.

In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts...
The New Yorker Stories
AuthorAnn Beattie
ISBN1439168741
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name...
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"

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Partial List of People to Bleach
AuthorGary Lutz
ISBN1892061317
unlike the poetry-prose amalgams of someone like renee gladman, who is arguably equally as painstaking with her sentences, lutz writes a kind of extreme non-poetic prose. while gladman can approach the sentence with habits associated with contemporary poetry--e.g. ashbery-like slippages between...
Without a Hero
AuthorT. Coraghessan Boyle
ISBN0140178392
T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena...
Meet Me in the Moon Room
AuthorRay Vukcevich
ISBN1931520011
* Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships,...
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN1931520194
In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

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Ancestor...
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...
The Collected Stories
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0312429894
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
The Collected Stories
AuthorLeonard Michaels
ISBN0374126542
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they...
The Stories of Mary Gordon
AuthorMary Gordon
ISBN0375423168
The masterly stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series,...
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories
AuthorJustin Taylor
ISBN0061881813
Justin Taylor's crystalline, spare, and oddly moving prose cuts to the quick. His characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious but often tragic impasses with reality: a high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic, a fast-food employee...
The Great Frustration
AuthorSeth Fried
ISBN1593764162
Channeling Steven Millhauser by way of George Saunders, The Great Frustration is a sparkling debut, equal parts fable and wry satire. Seth Fried balances the dark—a town besieged, a yearly massacre, the harem of a pathological king—with moments of sweet optimism—researchers unexpectedly...
The Best of Lucius Shepard
AuthorLucius Shepard
ISBN1596061332
Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America—not the heart of the United States or of North America, but all of America—and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. His earliest stories, the ones that made his name a quarter of a century ago, were set in the jungles...
Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction
AuthorJohn Crowley
ISBN0380731061
A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected...
Twin Study
AuthorStacey Richter
ISBN1582433712
Cavemen Roam The Suburbs, Morality is questionable, teens are angsting, and alcoholics abound. This is the world as Stacey Richter sees it. In spite of--or perhaps because of--this alarming cast of characters, Richter's stories are infused with wit, humor, and keen observations of what makes humans...
Super Flat Times
AuthorMatthew Derby
ISBN0316738573
An excellent, often bordering on five-solid-stars, collection of stories that are unified by a singular dystopian world. This is a world in which all that can go spectacularly wrong in a society has. We peer at it through the oft-demented and bleak perspectives of characters who struggle with situations...
A Better Angel
AuthorChris Adrian
ISBN0374289905
The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader in the hope that she can somehow lead him back to his dead brother. In “Why...
The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0061536075
“Erdrich is a true original… [and] one of our major writers: She illuminates large swaths of U.S. history and culture, and [The Red Covertible] is a good demonstration of her compelling stylistic innovations, not to mention her literary cunning.” —Washington Post Book World

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Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella
AuthorBrian Evenson
ISBN0803267444
Twenty-five short stories and a detective novella, The Sanza Affair, present a chilling collection of tales in which social institutions and human relationships dissolve without warning and with mayhem. A first collection.

Brian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story,...
Severance
AuthorRobert Olen Butler
ISBN0811856143
The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
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