On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology - Softcover

Rebecca Donner

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9780312301521: On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology

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ISBN 10: 0312301529 ISBN 13: 9780312301521

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

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Many of today's most celebrated and up-and-coming writers have climbed the narrow staircase to the splintered podium at New York City's KGB Bar to share their work at the Sunday night fiction series. This funky East Village watering hole, once the expat meeting house of Ukrainian socialists, has grown over the last decade into one of the choicest venues for literary talent.

On the Rocks compiles stories from some of the most talented writers of today, including David Gates, Mary Gaitskill, Jonathan Lethem, and Aimee Bender. Edgy, hard-bitten prose comes shoulder to shoulder with the lyrical and the fanciful, capturing the full range of voices in contemporary fiction. In subject and style, these pieces roam far and wide, but they all share the spirit of a night at KGB: provocative, daring, and dynamic.

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About the Author:

Rebecca Donner has been Literary Director of the KGB Sunday Fiction Series since 1998, and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel will be published in Spring 2003.

From Publishers Weekly:

A tiny East Village tenement room that used to be a meeting place for Ukrainian socialists, KGB Bar launched a reading series in 1994 that has become a beloved fixture of the New York literary scene. This third anthology (after KGB Bar Reader and the KGB Bar Book of Poems) focuses exclusively on fiction. Edited by Donner, literary director of the KGB Sunday Fiction Series, it features both veterans and ingenues, including such talents as Jonathan Lethem, Mary Gaitskill and Ben Marcus. Joyce Carol Oates's "In Hiding" depicts an isolated poet who begins corresponding with a talented admirer in a Kansas penitentiary. "The Witch," by Francine Prose, is a genre-bending tale about a woman in a problematic relationship who uses her mysterious gifts to draw the attention of a potential rescuer. Peter Ho Davies's virtuosic "What You Know" is about a writing teacher who decides to change his methods after one of his students becomes a murderer. A young Brooklyn mother's anxiety begins to control her life when her child falls down a flight of stairs in Dani Shapiro's "Plane Crash Theory." United only by their uniformly high level of originality and artistry, these innovative stories make for a top-flight anthology, a treat for anyone who wants to sample the best in contemporary fiction.
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