Gary Lutz

A complete collection of stories, old and new, by the legendary writer Gary Lutz

The Complete Gary Lutz

Stories

I Looked Alive

Fiction. DIVORCER is a collection of seven harrowing and hyperprecise short stories about ruinous relationships and their aftershocks.

Divorcer

Stories in the Worst Way

Thirty-six stories on unpleasant characters creating unpleasant situations. The story, In Waking Hours, is on a corporate type who vents his hate of people by mimicking them, while in Slops a professor exploits a bowl disorder to keep people away. Some stories are only a few sentences long.

New Stories

Partial List of People to Bleach

Fiction. Expanded Edition. Even as a chapbook, it was one of Time Out New York's Ten Best Books of 2007, and now Future Tense Books publishes an expanded paperback edition of Gary Lutz's short story collection, PARTIAL LIST OF PEOPLE TO BLEACH, with six previously uncollected pieces, including the provocative and now-classic essay "The Sentence Is a Lonely Place," and a foreword by Gordon Lish. Sam Lipsyte calls Lutz "a revolutionary force" and George Saunders says Lutz is "a master." This book reaffirms those statements.

Fiction. Lutz's new fictions dig deeper into the psyche of men and women grappling with making sense of their aging bodies and frantic but tired hearts, often living in towns where "all roads led to the one road that wasn't going where you wanted to go." Full of propulsive sentences and a humor made darker by his characters' sharp bitterness, ASSISTED LIVING is another dose of scathing sadness and comedy.

Assisted Living

Diane Stevenson

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Rex Anderson

Sentence is a Lonely Place, The

Dysfunctional married couples, apartment house recluses, shifty professors, and weary schoolteachers populate a collection of short stories set in the educational cloisters of present-day America

Derek White

Magazine. Fiction. Edited by Gary Lutz and Derek White, SLEEPINGFISH 8 features fictional text objects by: Ryan Call, Anna DeForest, Sasha Fletcher, Nina Shope, Rachel May, David McLendon, Eugene Lim, The Brothers Goat, Lito Elio Porto, Adam Weinstein, Diane Williams, Dennis Cooper, Elliott Stevens, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Alec Niedenthal, Amelia Gray, Matt Bell, Eduardo Recife, David Ohle, Evelyn Hampton, Emilie Noteris, Ottessa Moshfegh, Cooper Renner, Christine Schutt, M.T. Fallon, Daniel Grandbois, Julie Doxsee, Terese Svoboda, Blake Butler, Stephen Gropp-Hess, and Ali Aktan Askin.

Sleepingfish 8

Literary Nonfiction. The most brilliant writers occasionally stumble with grammar and punctuation, and the rest of us can learn from their missteps. THE GOTHAM GRAMMARIAN is a book of rules and guidelines for anyone who believes that correctness and precision still matter. The book discusses the ninety-five errors that most often go undetected by stellar writers, as well as by editors, copy editors, and proofreaders.

The Gotham Grammarian

Fiction. In his second collection of short fictions, the fiercely original Gary Lutz details a fresh assembly of gravely wayward fusspots, downhearted smart alecks, tank-town boulevardiers, virtuosos of loneliness, underloved lovelies of unstable, contestable gender. Desperate for human contact, Lutz's unforgettable characters listen for noises coming through the walls as well as collect the scraps of hair and skin their lovers have left behind. Written in a tonic prose of singular precision, the twenty-four gorgeously perverse, intensely moving stories of I LOOKED ALIVE place Lutz at the forefront of contemporary fiction's depictors of affection gone awry.

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