The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
8 best books like The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories (Joy Williams): A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, Jesus' Son, Outline, Bobcat and Other Stories, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Music Through the Floor, Karate Chop, Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
| Author | Lucia Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374202397 |
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060975776 |
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0571233627 |
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger...
| Author | Rebecca Lee |
| ISBN | 1616201738 |
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Set against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works...
| Author | Eric Puchner |
| ISBN | 0743270460 |
With "Music Through the Floor," Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting...
| Author | Dorthe Nors |
| ISBN | 1555976654 |
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps,...
| Author | Simon Ford |
| ISBN | 1901033600 |
I'll go ahead and say this is "amazing." Obviously, if you 1) don't care about Throbbing Gristle and/or 2) don't care about performance art, you might not get as much out of this book. Ford does a good job of not just summarizing what TG (and COUM Transmissions) did, but rooting it firmly in the context of...
