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- What's important is feeling : stories / by Wilson, Adam(Adam Zachary),1982-author.;
Soft thunder -- The long in-between -- Things I had -- December boys got it bad -- Some nights we tase each other -- We close our eyes -- Tell me -- Sluts at heart -- America is me and Andy -- What's important is feeling -- The porchies -- Milligrams."Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house. And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping to come out on top--but fearing they won't. In What's Important Is Feeling, Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion, lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning, hope, and grief. No one emerges unscathed."--P. [4] of cover.- Subjects: Fiction.; American fiction; Short stories, American.;
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- The best American short stories 2012 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Perrotta, Tom,1961-editor,author of introduction, etc.(CARDINAL)344595; Pitlor, Heidi,editor.(CARDINAL)477352; Anshaw, Carol,1946-Last speaker of the language.; Antrim, Taylor.Pilgrim Life .; Englander, Nathan.What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank.; Gaitskill, Mary,1954-Other place.; Gay, Roxane.North country.; Haigh, Jennifer,1968-Paramour.; Meginnis, Mike.Navigators.; Millhauser, Steven.Miracle polish.; Munro, Alice,1931-2024.Axis.; Osborne, Lawrence,1958-Volcano.; Otsuka, Julie,1962-Diem Perdidi.; Pearlman, Edith,1936-2023.Short stories.Selections.(CARDINAL)408338; Pneuman, Angela.Occupational hazard.; Puchner, Eric.Beautiful monsters.; Saunders, George,1958-Short stories.Selections.(CARDINAL)611803; Selasi, Taiye.Sex lives of African girls.; Solwitz, Sharon.Alive.; Walbert, Kate,1961-M & M world.; Walter, Jess,1965-Anything helps.; Wilson, Adam.What's important is feeling.;
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something lacking in their life. Their stories take sharp and surprising turns and often reach dazzling conclusions. In Nathan Englander's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank," a playful discussion between two married couples veers into darker territory, exposing a secret that might have been better left unspoken. Taiye Selasi writes a portrait of a motherless girl on the cusp of pubescence in Africa, where womanhood may not be something to be celebrated. "What's Important is Feeling: by Adam Wilson gives us a window onto a movie set where the narrator aches for something cinematic to happen in his life. Roxane Gay's "North Country" introduces us to an unlikely couple who circle each other in a wary dance of approach and avoidance. An unexpected visitor with a brown glass bottle kicks off a wonderfully strange fable about how we look at ourselves in Steven Millhauser's "Miracle Polish." Full of clear, idiosyncratic voices and intriguing points of view, this multifaceted collection will reward readers. And, as Perrotta unapologetically states, "By any standard, this year's batch of stories is pretty damn good."- Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, American.; Short stories, Canadian.; American fiction; Canadian fiction;
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