They're at it Again : : Stories From Twenty Years of Open City

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Long ride back home / Mohammed Nassehu Ali -- I was in flowers / Jonathan Ames -- Yellow slippers / Alba Arikah -- Change or die / Jerome Badanes -- Lost car / Jonathan Baumbach -- Guilty pleasure / Nico Baumback -- Typochondria / Priscilla Becker -- Crossing guard / Robert Bingham -- Mother of his children / Paula Bomer -- 17 Quai Voltaire / Paul Bowles -- North / Jason Brown -- Snowed in / Bliss Broyard -- Safari eyes / Sam Brumbaugh -- Silver Christ of Santa Fe / Charles Bukowski -- Glory goes and gets some / Emily Carter -- Hannibal had elephants with him / Susan Chamandy -- Dollar movies / Byran Charles -- Moroccan letters / Alfred Chester -- Girl games / Caitlin O'Conner Creevy -- Central Park wet / Adrian Dannatt -- Albert Camus / Geoff Dyer -- Short story of my family / Will Eno -- Troika / Alicia Erian -- Drive / David A. Fitschen -- Dogfight / Sylvia Foley -- Crazy person / Mary Gaitskill -- Wild Berry Blue / Rivka Galchen -- Hack wars / Josh Gilbert -- Dance with me Ish, like when you was a baby / Ish Goldstein -- Las Vegas bypass / Benjamin Golliver -- Enough about me / Elizabeth Grove -- Dick / Kirsty Gunn -- Loss prevention / James Hannaham -- Arizona II / Jim Harrison -- Lay-Z-Boy position / Erik Hedegaard -- Nightlife / Rodney Jack -- Jack and the Rotarians / Luis Jaramillo -- Breather / Jeff Johnson -- Resucitation of the Shi Tzu / Ryan Kenealy -- Girl with no face / Chuck Kinder -- Equilibrium / Walter Kirn -- Skate dogs / Kip Kotzen -- A Little Rock memoir, mostly about other things / Cynthia Kraman -- Natural order / James Lasdun -- Meherangarh / Zachery Lazar -- Shed / Sam Lipsyte -- Old soul / Sam Lipsyte -- Fragment No. 17 Mexicoi Utca -- Giuseppe O. Longo -- Tea at the plaza / Phillip Lopate -- Twilight at the Equator / Jaime Manrique -- Bees / Thomas McGuane -- Octo / Vestal McIntyre -- Waiting / Martha McPhee -- What they did / David Means -- Adhesiveness: There was this guy / Albert Mobilio -- Johnny Stinkbait bears his soul / Thorpe Moeckel -- Hello, this is Bob. / Antonya Nelson -- Semiprecious / Mike Newirth -- Curiosity / Sigrid Nunez -- South Haven / John O'Connor -- Bring on the dancing horses / Ed Park -- Cathedral parkway / Vince Passaro -- Who by fire / Victor Pelevin -- Happy pills / Mark Jude Poirier -- On the cliff / Gregor von Rezzori -- Eidetic / Rick Rofihe -- Popcorn / Strawbery Saroyan -- My mother and the stranger / Said Sayrafiezadeh -- La vie en rose / Hubert Selby, Jr. -- Winners / Jessica Shattuck -- Peg / Sam Shaw -- Say please / C.I. Shelton -- Keeping time / Rachel Sherman -- Sports / David Shields -- Truce / Said Shirazi -- Chicken pox and other stories / Hal Sirowitz -- Better lucky than good / Peter Nolan Smith -- Egg man / Scott Smith -- Pride of life / Christopher Sorrentino -- King in mirrors / Matthew Specktor -- Gordito / Jerry Stahl -- Toby dead / Laurie Stone -- High wire / Robert Stone -- I may look dumb / Maxine Swann -- Gone / Toby Talbot -- Dubrovnik / Cannon Thomas -- Killed on the beat / Helen Thorpe -- Proust and the rat / Nick Tosches -- Mistress / Lara Vapnyar -- Nothing happened / David Foster Wallace -- Westchester burning / Amine Wefali -- Eurotrash / Irvine Welsh -- Harold Brodkey: the great pretender / Edmund White -- Elegant rube / Malerie Willens -- Uncertain times / Richard Yates -- Dragons may be the way forward / Leni Zumas.
This anthology features the best stories and essays from Open City magazine, a hub of literary excitement and innovation since 1991. Not only a brilliant sampling from two decades of an important cultural phenomenon, this lively and engaging collection is also a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making.

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