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Children playing before a statue of Hercules
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Children playing before a statue of Hercules

Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Sedaris
ISBN: 074327394X 9780743273947
OCLC Number: 57625688
Description: vi, 344 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro -- Applause, applause / Jean Thompson -- I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- The best of Betty / Jincy Willett -- Song of the shirt, 1941 / Dorothy Parker -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Irish girl / Tim Johnston -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.
Responsibility: edited and introduced by David Sedaris.
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