Stephen Dixon

A Novel

Frog

Time to Go

CALLES Y OTROS RELATOS

In a literary scene gone dull with novel after novel about young up-scale New Yorkers with drug/sex/alcohol/attitude problems, leave it to the old master of the American avant-garde, two-time National Book Award-nominee Stephen Dixon, to write the most innovative, absorbing, and moving book of the season, OLD FRIENDS. It starts with a chance meeting –- the wife of one shifty writer, in an effort to get him out of the house a little more, introduces him to another shifty writer whose wife would like to see him leave the house every now and then, too. Dixon then presents a stunning tour-de-force, tracing their friendship from its stumbling beginning –- visiting at each other's houses, of course –- through its sometimes hysterical, sometimes heart-wrenching lifetime . . . until the very end. It's a virtuoso work, with the masterful Dixon at the height of his skills, mixing trenchant humor with blunt observation. But this book also shows off –- perhaps better than any of his previous books –- how Dixon manages to be both innovative and accessible at once, writing in clear prose that nonetheless seems to be etched in his own unique language. The end result is an absolutely beautiful work of art -- a moving homage to the writing life, to friendship and love -- that's certain to be recognized as one of the celebrated author's very best books, and bound to win him a whole new generation of readers.

Old Friends

Short stories. "Dixon's people are intelligent, imaginative creations, humorous and long-suffering, somehow paralyzed or stagnating."--Publishers Weekly

The Play and Other Stories

Stories offer a satiric look at urban America, the nature of modern relationships, and the complexities of human life

The Stories of Stephen Dixon

McSweeney's ever-changing Quarterly Concern returns with our 63 issue featuring a tribute to (and previously unpublished stories by) the acclaimed late author Stephen Dixon. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there has been an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail) but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction. Recent McSweeney's stories have won or been shortlisted for the National Magazine Award, the Pushcart Prize, The Caine Prize for African Literature, and been included in various Best American anthologies among other honours. 'A key barometer of the literary climate.' -- The New York Times 'The first bona fide literary movement in decades.' -- Slate

McSweeney's Issue 64 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Steve Almond

Cris Mazza

Megan Giddings

Rick Moody

Edward Gauvin

Weston Cutter

Thomas Owen

Jesse Damiani

Richard Peabody

Rae Bryant

Kyle Noe

Lindsay Lusby

Andrew Roe

Morgan Elliot

Marjorie Maddox

Jason Olsen

Chad Simpson

Moira Egan

David Everett

Billie Tadros

David Wagoner

Ogun Afariogun

Jill Birdsall

Nathan Blake

Carlyn Davis

Matt Ferner

Suzanne Hopcroft

Don Hucks

Len Kuntz

Alexis Covato

B. J. Lloyd

Bird Marathe

Jacob Oet

Joseph A. W. Quintela

Chas Schroeder

The Size Queens

Michael Shum

Vallie Lynn Watson

John Silbey Williams

Britt Gambino

Chelsey Clammer

Gabriela Romeri

Vipra Ghimire

Lisa A. Dulin

Mark Farrington

"Eclectic selection of work from both emerging and established writers...." (The Washington Post), Eckleburg is a collection of stories, poetry, translations, and artwork by award-winning and emerging talents such as Rick Moody, Stephen Dixon, Cris Mazza, and Eckleburg's 2013 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winner, Jill Birdsall. Eckleburg No. 18 is a textual and graphic innovation for both the traditionalists and nonconformists.

The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review No. 18

Dennis Barone

Carl Rollyson

Eugénio de Andrade

Edwin Honig

Kate Light

Elisabeth Stevens

Albert Russo

Nahid Rachlin

Sarah Ruden

Roberta Allen

Gerald Williams

Barry Targan

Carol Miller

Robert Donald Spector

Kevin Prufer

Brenda S. Webster

Emil Draitser

Martin Tucker

Wendell Mayo

Edward F. Stanton

Johanna Garfield

Jay Rogoff

Alexandru Mușina

Steven Sher

D. H. Melhem

Nancy Barron

David Margolis

Edmund Pennant

Sylvia de Swaan

Leslie Schenk

Alexandra Shelley

Waithira Mbuthia

Margaret McClary Abdul

Deloris H. Netzband

Janset Berkok Shami

Maria T. Von Waldow

Nat Lehrman

Jolene Goldenthal

Hilde Jaeckel

Gary Kraut

Carson H. Wu

Karen Wunsch

Marian Pierce

Rachel Carpenter

Linda Kinnard Harris

Frances Maclean

Dennis Pahl

Peter Baida

Siv Cedering

Lara JK Wilson

Georgia Shreve

Marguerite Bouvard

Philip Corwin

Janet Kaplan

David Winwood

Aleksandr Sokolov

Cornel Adam Lengyel

Martha Zweig

A Literary Journal of Long Island University

Confrontation

Twenty Stories

Love and Will

Interstate

"The interlinked tales in this Late Stories detail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions"--Amazon.com.

Late stories

A father mentally replays, in eight variations, the shooting of his daughters on an interstate highway

Contemporary short stories about edgy, urban, obsessive characters by one of America's best writers of experimental fiction.

Stories

Sleep

Donna Akers disparaît après avoir quitté prématurément une séance de cinéma qui l'ennuyait. Inquiet et perplexe, Art, son compagnon, met tout en oeuvre pour la retrouver. Donna l'a-t-elle quitté ? A-t-elle été victime d'une agression ? S'est-elle accordé des vacances impromptues ? Autant de questions auxquelles il s'efforce de répondre en mettant à contribution ses voisins, l'ensemble de son carnet d'adresses, police et enquêteurs privés, sans oublier lui-même, qui arpente New York de jour comme de nuit en quête d'un indice susceptible de lui redonner espoir. Gardiens de nuit, cambrioleurs, barmen, policiers, chiens, chats et toutes sortes de légendes urbaines peuplent cette quête sentimentale aux accents existentiels. Une prose à bâtons rompus, virtuose, à l'image de l'énergie émanant de cette ville qui ne dort jamais.

Jamais trop tard

Returning readers to the universe first depicted in I., a continuation of the narrator's tense and breakneck reflections on the life cycles of relationships represents a darkly comic exploration of how his at-risk lifestyle renders him more alive.

End of I.

The twenty-seventh book of fiction by one of America’s leading avant gardists, the award-winning Baltimore writer Stephen Dixon, sets up a situation that the protagonist, Meyer—a prolific fiction writer from Baltimore—finds preposterous: writer’s block. In a story rife with Dixon’s trademark zest and style, Meyer proceeds to rifle through all the possible aspects of his life that could make for good fiction, and to try whatever it takes to get himself writing again. Sometimes, sex with his wife works, so he tries that, but without luck (even after several tries, just to be sure). He wonders if he should try sex with one of the neighbors. He wonders if he should try writing about his parents’ death…again. He wonders about concocting awful things to happen to himself and his family. He wonders about concocting wonderful things to happen to himself and his family. He tries sex with his wife again… Is there nothing in Meyer’s life worth writing about? It is, in short, Stephen Dixon at his best: stylish, funny, moving, and relentless as ever in his pursuit of the small, meaningful, and ultimately powerful revelations of everyday life.

Meyer

If you ever heard the tale of the Gingerbread Man, What you might not know was his follow-up plan. This is the tale of what happened later, The cheeky, old fox turned Gingerbread baker.The Gingerbread Man 2 is a fun, rhyming sequel to the traditional folk tale, in a wonderfully illustrated and kind-hearted follow-up to the dramatic ending of the original story.This story follows the fox on his journey back to the bakery with his newfound desire to bake. Find out what happens when he makes an oven full of little Gingerbread Men, and whether a happier ending is in store!Since first publication The Gingerbread Man 2 has featured in magazines, educational books, museum readings, podcasts, libraries, classrooms and thousands of homes around the world. Catch it if you can! REVIEW FROM THE FATHER READING EVERY DAY BOOK BLOG: " Book of the Week!""Perfect for reading with children 3 and up who will instantly recognise the characters and engage with them. A lovely read which works perfectly well as a standalone (on the off chance that you haven't read/heard/seen a version of the original) and which also adds to the original in a way that feels natural, extending the story."

What Happened Later?

The Gingerbread Man 2

Philip Seidel, un reconocido escritor, es el protagonista de estos treinta y un relatos tan intrínsecamente conectados que bien podrían leerse como una novela. Su mujer, con quien compartió treinta años de vida, ha fallecido. La muerte, la vejez, el deseo de conservar la lucidez, la posibilidad de volver a enamorarse después de un duelo son solo algunos de los tópicos que Stephen Dixon, uno de los escritores más talentosos de la literatura estadounidense de los últimos años, profundiza en Historias tardías, y lo hace con una vitalidad sorprendente, lejos de cualquier tinte melancólico o nostálgico. En un ambiente donde por momentos la falta de memoria, la confusión y la soledad parecieran tomar el control, Dixon encuentra un terreno fértil para explorar los límites de la escritura y, al mismo tiempo, desarticular sus obsesiones más profundas.

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