What Is All This: Uncollected Stories

✍ Scribed by Dixon, Stephen

• Book ID: 108973698
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 989 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781606995198

✦ Synopsis

An uncompromising collection of modern fiction.Stephen Dixon is one of the literary world's best-kept secrets. For the last thirty years he has been quietly producing work for both independent literary publishers (McSweeney's and Melville House Press) and corporate houses (Henry Holt), amassing 14 novels and well over 500 short stories. Dixon has shunned the pyrotechnics of mass market pop fiction, writing fiercely intellectual examinations of everyday life, challenging his readers with prose that rivals the complexities of William Gaddis and David Foster Wallace. Gradually building a loyal following, he stands now as a cult icon and a true iconoclast.

Stephen Dixon is also the literary world's worst-kept secret. His witty, keenly observed narratives and sharply hewn prose have appeared in every major market magazine from Harper's to Playboy and have earned him two National Book Award nominations--for his novels Frog and...