Girl with Curious Hair
Author: David Foster Wallace
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism…..Read More
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Oblivion: Stories
Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Humorous Stories
The Broom of the System
The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Missing Persons, Ohio Cleveland
The Name of the World
Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he… Continue Reading Posted in: Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Widowers
Forty Stories
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Experimental Fiction, Short Stories, Short Stories Anthologies
The Pale King
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Classic Literature & Fiction, David Foster, Fiction, Illinois, Wallace
Beautiful Losers
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Canadian Fiction, Comedic Dramas & Plays, Fiction Satire, Men
Snopes
Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Fiction, Literary Movements & Periods, Literature, Snopes (Faulkner, William
The Crying of Lot 49
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Married Women, United States
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