Stories in Worst Way

Lutz, Gary

Random House Value Publishing

Whether unfolding within the fluorescent glare of the office or in educational cloisters in the present-day United States, these crucial, often darkly hilarious arraignments and instigations place before us a parade of marital defectives, self-terrorized apartment house solitaries, shifty professors, sleep-sickened homework graders and indexers--all running through the heart's entire repertory in pursuit of a fitting catastrophe of the self.

Stories in the Worst Way

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Contemporary

3rd Bed Books

Acclaimed writer Gary Lutz introduces a new cast of characters in his second collection: wayward fusspots, smart alecks, tank-town boulevardiers, lonely hearts, and underloved, unstable creatures of questionable gender. Desperate for human connection, they listen through walls and engage in such obsessions as collecting hairs left behind by lovers. These 24 passionately and intricately rendered stories secure Lutz's place at the forefront of the contemporary fiction of disaffection.

I Looked Alive: Stories

United States

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Fiction. Short Stories. Originally released by Knopf in 1996, Lutz's rigorously innovative debut barely made a ripple in the mainstream publishing world. Meanwhile, however, the book attained a cult status, and its influence has grown tremendously in the years since its appearance, disappearance, and reappearance."Gary Lutz is a sentence writer from another planet, deploying language with unmatched invention. He is not just an original literary artist, but maybe the only one to so strenuously reject the training wheels limiting American narrative practice. What results are stories nearly too good to read: crushingly sad, odd, and awe-inspiring"--Ben Marcus.

Calamari Press

Fiction. DIVORCER is a collection of seven harrowing and hyperprecise short stories about ruinous relationships and their aftershocks.

Divorcer

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For nearly three decades, Gary Lutz has been writing quietly influential, virtuosic short fictions of antic despair. In barbed sentences of startling originality, Lutz gives voice to outcasts from conventional genders and monogamies―and even from the ruckus of their own bodies. Making their rounds of daily humiliations, Lutz's self-unnerving narrators find themselves helplessly trespassing on their own lives. This omnibus volume, with an introduction by Brian Evenson, gathers all five of Lutz's sometimes hard-to-find collections and features sixty pages of previously uncollected stories―including his two longest.

The Complete Gary Lutz

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tyrant Books

Partial List of People to Bleach

Even as a chapbook, it was one of Time Out New York's Ten Best Books of 2007, and now Future Tense Books publishes an expanded paperback edition of Partial List of People to Bleach, with six previously uncollected pieces, including the provocative and now-classic essay "The Sentence Is a Lonely Place," and a foreword by Gordon Lish. "Partial List of People to Bleach is at once cruelly honest, precisely painful, and beautifully rendered." -Brian Evenson "Gary Lutz is a master-living proof that, even in our cliché-ridden, denial-drenched, hype-driven age, true originality is still an American possibility." -George Saunders

Literary

Future Tense Books

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Stories in Worst Way

Stories in the Worst Way

Stories in the Worst Way

I Looked Alive: Stories

Stories in the Worst Way

Divorcer

Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference

Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference: The Definitive Source for Clear and Concise Writing

The Complete Gary Lutz

Partial List of People to Bleach