Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight (The Song Cave, 15) - Softcover

Sisskind, Mitch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996778640 ISBN 13: 9780996778640

Publisher: The Song Cave, 2016

Synopsis

“This collection renders me helpless with laughter and admiration. Man, is he oblique or what?” ―Michael Silverblatt

Admired by Donald Barthelme and Lydia Davis, Mitch Sisskind is a professional satirist whose stories and poems can finally be read in one new volume. Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight, a selection from the last five decades, includes an introduction from poet Amy Gerstler, who calls Sisskind “a postmodern master of the anti-epiphany,” and an afterword by David Lehman. Bestowed with outlandish names, Sisskind’s characters make up a cast of failures for whom grace is absent. The hilarity and sadness of many of their surprising situations have the ability to startle readers until, as in his imagined filmography of Tokyo Liscomb, “all hell breaks loose.” The divine is often called upon and sometimes shows up but never in expected ways, since Sisskind, gifted with originality, unsettles all we thought we knew about this world and the next.
Mitch Sisskind grew up in Chicago, attended Columbia University and now lives in Los Angeles. Two books of his short fiction have been published: Visitations (1984) and Dog Man Stories (1993). His poems were included in The Best American Poetry anthologies for 2009 and 2013.

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About the Author

Mitch Sisskind grew up in Chicago, attended Columbia University, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of DO NOT BE A GENTLEMAN WHEN YOU SAY GOODNIGHT (The Song Cave, 2016) as well as two collections of short fiction: Visitations (1984) and Dog Man Stories (1993). His poems were included in the Best American Poetry anthologies for 2009 and 2013.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Song Cave
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996778640
• ISBN 13: 9780996778640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184