Gordon Lish - Collected Fictions

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In literary America, to utter the name “Gordon Lish” in a conversation is like adding hot sauce to a meal. You either enjoy the zesty experience, one that pushes your limits — or you prefer to stay away. It’s Lish who, first as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname “Captain Fiction”) and then at the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, shaped the work of many of the country’s foremost writers, from Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah to Amy Hempel and Lily Tuck.
As a writer himself, Lish’s stripped-down, brutally spare style earns accolades in increasing numbers. His oeuvre is coming to be recognized as among the most significant of the period that spans the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries. Kirkus Reviews wrote of his last collection that “Lish…is still our Joyce, our Beckett, our most true modernist.”
This definitive collection of Lish’s short work includes a new foreword by the author and 106 stories, many of which Lish has revised exclusively for this edition. His observations are in turn achingly sad and wryly funny as they spark recognition of our common, clumsy humanity. There are no heroes here, except, perhaps, for all of us, as we muddle our way through life: they are stories of unfaithful husbands, inadequate fathers, restless children and writing teachers, men lost in their middle age: more often than not first-person tales narrated by one “Gordon Lish.” The take on life is bemused, satirical, and relentlessly accurate; the language unadorned: the result is a model of modernist prose and a volume of enduring literary craftsmanship.

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There's cause for concern.

You'd stoop to a saying.

I'm just saying.

You'd stoop to an alliteration.

Everyone's concerned.

You'd get down and wallow with a cliché.

We have your best interest at heart.

I could vomit from this.

Are you all right?

I could really throw up from this.

Do you want to sit down?

This is too much.

Lie down for a bit.

No dice.

Take some time out for a bit.

Nothing doing.

You can sue later.

I'm suing now.

Can't it wait?

What do you take me for?

Rest a while.

You take me for a fool, don't you?

Give things a chance to work themselves out.

Things worsen. Everything worsens.

Oh so true. But suing's not the answer.

It couldn't hurt. And I'll feel better.

That's what we want, isn't it?

Isn't what?

For you to feel better.

I'd like to feel better.

Of course you would.

I'd really like to.

And you shall, you shall.

You're humoring me.

Who's humoring you?

This is disgusting. People are disgusting.

Calm yourself.

I wouldn't give you the satisfaction.

Why make a mountain out of a molehill?

Filth.

Please.

You filth.

No need, there's no need.

I'll show you need.

Just hang on a little longer.

You want hang? I'll give you hang.

You're upset.

How dare you talk to me like this!

So sue us.

Us? Where's us?

Just a manner of speaking. Lie down.

Skip it.

Just for two seconds lie down.

Forget it.

Here. Lie here.

No.

You know you want to.

No.

Oh now, you know you do.

What for?

To feel better. To feel good.

I'd like to feel good.

Of course you would. Who wouldn't?

Just for a minute.

That's right.

I'm tired.

How could you not be?

I'm so tired.

We're all of us weary through and through.

Why is that?

It's tiring.

Truer words were never etc.

There's the proof.

There's what?

The proof.

What proof?

Etc. You said etc.

The rest of it would have killed me.

My meaning exactly.

I'd never have made it.

The syllables. It's never not the syllables.

We're perishing from the syllables.

Why is it, why is it?

Do the math.

The divisor is?

Syllables, number of.

And the dividend?

Oh, Jesus.

What's the dividend?

It's, oh, it's a certain variable.

Variable how?

Who can say? Can anyone say?

But is it known?

Try one. Try an infinitely divisible one.

Cut it out. Infinition?

Try it.

Head's spinning.

Lie down.

Don't feel so hot.

Who does?

Really feeling pretty lousy.

Let's get those shoes off.

Feel bad. Honest.

Me too.

All the phonemes, Christ.

Don't forget the hyphens. Even just the periods.

You're saying don't speak.

I'm just saying.

But you're saying don't speak.

Touch.

Touch instead?

Just touch.

Touch divided into the time you've got?

Touches.

But supposing, just supposing.

Go ahead and suppose.

Well, what gets done?

One lives.

But in the way of things.

My very meaning.

Touch?

And be touched.

But this, all this, isn't it speech?

Shh.

Don't speak?

Shh.

Don't sue?

Shh.

Just shush?

Hush.

Nothing but this?

What is there but this?

I'm getting everything off.

Yes.

It's all coming off.

Yes.

Once I get going, don't look for me to quit.

Yes.

Now's the time.

Yes.

Now's the only time.

That's it.

It's all contracting.

Um.

It's all condensing.

Isn't it?

It all comes down to only this.

No, no — not this — that.

That?

Yes, that.

You never said that.

What else but that?

But you said this.

I said this?

I swear you said this.

But this is that.

This is that?

You think not?

It's what anyone thinks — this and that.

It? Which it is it that is that it?

You're gaslighting me again.

This is the movie, you mean.

Gaslight me one more time.

And you'll do what?

I'll sue.

So sue.

I'm suing.

You're suing me?

I'm suing you.

So everything up to this point was pointless?

But look how far we got.

I tried to save you.

Thanks for that.

This is the thanks I get for that?

That's the thanks you get for this.

Got.

See why I'm suing?

But why sue me? Sue how we speak.

You see that? Do you see it, do you see it?

See what?

Sue at the beginning of a sentence.

This was to see sue at the beginning of a sentence?

Not this, but that.

All that was just to see sue like that?

You want my answer?

You owe me an answer.

The answer is it wasn't until it was.

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