The interlinked tales in this Late Stories detail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions. Described by Jonathan Lethem as "one of the great secret masters" of contemporary American literature, Stephen Dixon is at the height of his form in these uncanny and virtuoso fictions. With Late Stories, master stylist Dixon returns with a collection exploring the elision of memory and reality in the wake of loss.

Late Stories

Literature & Fiction

DIXON, STEPHEN

Humor & Satire

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The Hypothetical Man is a darkly humorous collection of stories featuring an assortment of anonymous characters A, B, and S. They work either undercover at an amusement park in Illinois or at a secret government facility that would prefer not to be named. They attend a freewheeling sales meeting with death masks on the wall. Some raise pigs, others race goats. One lives in a suburban home where he watches his wife with another man. They are, together, misled, misunderstood, and mistaken often, but their pursuit of answers never ends. Paul Maliszewski is the author of Fakers and Prayer and Parable. His work has appeared in Harper's, Granta, Bookforum, The Paris Review, and Bomb. He lives in Washington, DC.
James Wagner is the author of Thrown: poems to paintings with Bracha L. Ettinger, Work Book, Trilce, and the false sun recordings. He lives in California.

The Hypothetical Man

Humor & Entertainment

Wagner, James

Maliszewski, Paul

Humor

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