Gordon Lish, Author White Pine Press (NY) $10 (190p) ISBN 978-1-877727-05-4
``Wholly original in concept and often brilliant in execution, Extravaganza lives up to its title,'' asserted PW . A fictionalized version of the old vaudeville team Smith & Dale tells familiar, Yiddish theater-inflected burlesque routines. But...
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Gordon Lish, Author Dutton Books $15.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-525-24375-5
An outstanding performer in prose fiction, Lish (author of Dear Mr. Capote and a short-story collection, What I Know So Far) here again delves into a psychotic mind and surpasses himself. Impassioned and forceful, the novel catapults the reader into
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Gordon Lish, Author Viking Books $16.95 (162p) ISBN 978-0-670-82061-0
The guru of one school of contemporary short story writers weighs in here with a collection of 27 short pieces that are so mannered and monotonous as to seem parodies of the storytelling art. In most of them, the narrator addresses the reader...
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Gordon Lish, Author Scribner Book Company $8.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-684-18764-8
The author of Dear Mr. Capote and What I Know So Far, Lish again delves into a psychotic mindthe 50ish narrator of this tale may or may not have committed a murder at the age of six. ""This is a haunting book, provoking fresh perceptions about...
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Gordon Lish, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-399-13417-3
Lish's daunting reputation as an editor and role as mentor to a number of young writers has sometimes eclipsed his own fiction. This new novel (his third) deserves attention in its own right. Wholly original in concept and often brilliant in...
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Gordon Lish, Author Pantheon Books $18 (98p) ISBN 978-0-679-42685-1
Lish ( My Romance ) does love his sentences. Chewing them up, spitting them out, sucking them back, he sends them tumbling over one another in a sort of waterfall of consciousness. In this absurd, comic novel, the sentences pool together into six...
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Gordon Lish, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-393-03001-3
Redoubtable editor and minimalist guru Lish again indulges in somewhat tasteless ``faction,'' using himself as protagonist, with a cast including his parents, wife and son along with such publishing and literary notables as Denis Donoghue and James...
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Gordon Lish, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $22 (232p) ISBN 978-1-56858-115-6
The transcendent quirkiness of Lish's style--repetitive, meandering, self-referential--brings to life a series of childhood summers in what may be his most accessible, funniest novel to date. Sore feet up on a pillow, Lish's aged narrator (named...
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Gordon Lish, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56858-098-2
This fourth collection from editor and writing guru Lish contains 44 fragmentary pieces that fall uneasily between the categories of short stories and narcissistic confessional essays. Most of the entries revolve around a man by the name of Gordon...
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Gordon Lish, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $22 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56858-154-5
Lish has gone through many literary incarnations. Fiction editor at Esquire in the '70s, he famously mentored Raymond Carver; then he flourished as a Knopf editor and writing teacher who himself writes experimental and on-the-edge fiction (Dear Mr....
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Gordon Lish. Dzanc, $24.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-950539-28-4
Mortality and death hang over many of the pieces in this searing collection from the legendary Lish (Dear Mr. Capote). In “Naugahyde,” composed of an erstwhile couple’s dialogue over the phone, reminiscences of a sex act give way to thoughts of...
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