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Book SynopsisWith Death and So Forth, esteemed writer and editor Gordon Lish returns with a new book of scintillating short fiction. With his trademark precision, wit, and wiliness, Lish writes outside the margins and around the edges of the death, loss, and the fractiousness and fragmentation of language. Death and So Forth collects a number of Lish’s acclaimed stories and introduces eight new fictions, including a tribute to Denis Johnson and so many others lost in the course of a long life. Brilliant and sharp-eyed, this is a treasure for fans of Gordon Lish, new and lifelong.
Trade Review"Lish is still our Joyce, our Beckett, our most true modernist. Buy! Read! Listen up!"—Kirkus Reviews "Gordon Lish, famous for all the wrong reasons, has written some of the most fascinating American fiction of the last ten years."—Don DeLillo "Lish has produced a wealth of avant-garde prose, worthy of the pioneers of literary modernism. His writing represents the US answer to Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard."—The Guardian
