The Dick Gibson Show
The Dick Gibson Show

Author: Stanley Elkin

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2010-10-26

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1453204326

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A radio host’s rise is the fodder for this “funny, melancholy, frightening . . . absolutely American” National Book Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). Since childhood, Dick Gibson has longed for a successful radio career to make him a household name. Seeking to hone his craft, Dick travels from stations in Nebraska and New Jersey to the Armed Forces Radio in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War, interviewing crooks, con artists, and hypnotists along the way. His show ignites the imaginations of all who listen to it—until one fateful night when a studio guest’s irresistible influence on Dick and all those listening to him will change their lives forever. Spirited and compelling, The Dick Gibson Show is a laugh-out-loud journey through the world of talk radio and a compulsively readable account of one man’s descent into the dark echo chamber of American media. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Author: Grace Paley

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1466883987

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In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

Author: Dean Wesley Smith

Publisher: Wmg Publishing

Published: 2018-07-25

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781561460694

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The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up seventeen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse.

From the Diary of a Snail
From the Diary of a Snail

Author: Günter Grass

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1473522536

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Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.

Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?
Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?

Author: Richard Hantula

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2004-12-15

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780836839524

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Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Author: Peter Handke

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1782270302

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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.