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10 best books like Thirst (Ken Kalfus): War Fever, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Cold Snap, Maybe This Time, Trampoline: An Anthology, Stained Glass Elegies, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories, The Map of the System of Human Knowledge

War Fever
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0374525765
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories...
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
AuthorWilliam Trevor
ISBN0192801937
What began simply in Ireland as entertainment and communication through the spoken word soon grew into an extraordinary literary form unmatched in any other country. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories triumphantly demonstrates the development of the short story in Ireland--from the early folk...
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,...
Cold Snap
AuthorThom Jones
ISBN0571179452
Thom Jones's second collection of stories takes its readers into an edgy, overadrenalized world of desire, mania and rage. Following his extraordinary debut in The Pugilist at Rest, Thom Jones returned with a collection of unparalleled fire and vision. Jones takes us from down-and-out in America...
Maybe This Time
AuthorAlois Hotschnig
ISBN0956284051
A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbors. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling...
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....
Stained Glass Elegies
AuthorShūsaku Endō
ISBN0811211428
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected...
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...
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
AuthorHans Fallada
ISBN0141195800
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...
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...
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,...
The Family Markowitz
AuthorAllegra Goodman
ISBN0374529396
In The Family Markowitz, Allegra Goodman writes with wit and compassion of three generations of Markowitzes making their way in America. At the centre is Rose, the cantankerous matriarch, who longs for her earlier life in London and Vienna but is now forced into dependency on her sons Ed, an academic...
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...
The Rainbow Stories
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
ISBN0140171541
From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live outside the law and and the clear light of the...
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
AuthorAlberto Manguel
ISBN1841954497
'Stevenson Under the Palm Trees' is a vivid novella with Robert Louis Stevenson at its centre. Drawing on works produced by Stevenson at the end of his life, Manguel weaves a story about his life on Samoa, a philosophical investigation into morality, storytelling and reality. Manguel's story is filled...
The Novelist & the Rapper
AuthorMickey Hess
The Novelist & the Rapper is a collection of stories and essays that weave together Nobel Banquet speeches, hip-hop interviews, Colonel Sanders’ autobiography, and the 1777 diary of a forgotten Revolutionary War hero to create a unique mix of found text, memoir, and fiction. Pieces from the...
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...
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0753808218
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...
Hidden Camera
AuthorZoran Živković
ISBN1564784126
From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there's only one other person...
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...
Seven Houses in France
AuthorBernardo Atxaga
ISBN1555976239
A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and Obabakoak

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return...
The Secret History of Science Fiction
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1892391937
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative...
The Age of Wire and String
AuthorBen Marcus
ISBN1564781968
In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection—part fiction,...
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