Churning like a third-world traveler’s stomach, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World is a travelogue about finding the unexpected in familiar places. A frustrated shipper of rare books at a Boston bookstore (who refers to himself as "The Egotourist") returns to his parents’ suburban New Jersey home to work temporary jobs and earn enough money to take a hundred buses to Cuzco, Peru. Alternating among essays, dialogues, and short spiels, Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World rolls with the Egotourist’s restlessness as he tells of long-distance love, Black Sabbath cover bands, flirtatious administrative assistants, minotauric secretaries, and camaraderie in copy centers, all of it heading toward a hard-earned trip south of the border. Ultimately, the Egotourist discovers that what he sought in far-flung destinations is just as easily found in the unexpected exoticism of home.

Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World

Travel

Klein, Lee

Travel Writing

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The Famous & The Anonymous uncovers the private obsessions and subterranean desires of the nameless and the internationally recognized, both contemporary and historical. Ten of the twenty-two stories within the collection take the reader behind a celebrity’s poseur façade to reveal the anxiety-riddled human behind it. The remaining twelve inspect the personal lives of unknown men and women, who watch their worlds slowly unraveling around them. The stories examine the motivations behind sexual deviancy, extramarital affairs, murder, and other behavior having generally calamitous consequences. With keen insight into the human condition, each tale provides a vivid transcription of the visual and emotional worlds.

The Famous and the Anonymous

Schroll, Savannah

Boom! For Real

Steven Coy

Ian Dooda

<p>Not only are people all around the world having lots of sex, but they are also writing about it. See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming is the second compilation of 50 sex-riddled short fictions that try to transcend perhaps the most universal subject in existence. Writing from across the globe, each 1,000-word text promises to evoke and provoke the existential and thoughtful corners of your most erotic of organs (namely the one in your head). In other words, the rumors are true, the waiting has ended: The Second Coming is here</p>

See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming

VARIOUS

Thirty-six cities. Thirty-six stories of obsession. From ancient Thebes to present day Berlin, these little portraits of humans superimposed on their suburban environment are corroding treats thrown together in a past-modern beaker, landmark tales of love in the metropolis. A round-the-world tour of craving and decadence.

Metrophilias

Literature & Fiction

Connell, Brendan

Short Stories & Anthologies

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