Full Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Contents
Table of Contents
The Tao of Humiliation
What Doesn't Kill You Makes Me Stronger
The Live One
You Know You've Made It When They Hate You
The Undressed Mirror
La Belle Dame Sans Professeur
The Bottled Mermaid
Fly Me to the Moons
The Swan Princess
Will Anyone Ever Know Me
Bashful
My Temple
Escape from the Dark Forest
The Ideal Reader
Beyond The Yellow Wallpaper
Touch Us
Let Go
The Floating Woman
The Last Satyr
"The Strange Heart Beating Where It Lies"
