Bream gives me hiccups & other stories
"Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In...
| Main Author: | Eisenberg, Jesse, 1983- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[New York] :
Grove,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Bream gives me hiccups: restaurant reviews from a privileged nine-year-old
- Family:
- My little sister texts me with her problems ;
- Separation anxiety sleepaway camp ;
- My mother explains the ballet to me ;
- An email exchange with my first girlfriend, which at a certain point is taken over by my older sister, a college student studying the Bosnian genocide ;
- My prescription information pamphlets as written by my father ;
- My nephew has some questions
- History:
- Men and dancing ;
- Final conversation at Pompeii ;
- Alexander Graham Bell's first five phone calls ;
- Marxist-Socialist jokes
- My roommate stole my ramen: letters from a frustrated freshman
- Dating:
- A post-gender-normative man tries to pick up a woman at a bar ;
- A post-gender-normative woman tries to pick up a man at a bar ;
- A guy on acid tries to pick up a woman at a bar ;
- A lifelong teatotaler, embarrassed by his own sobriety, tries to pick up a woman at a bar
- Sports:
- Marv Alpert is my therapist ;
- Carmelo Anthony and I debrief our friends after a pickup game at the YMCA ;
- A marriage counselor tries to heckle at a Knicks game
- Self-help:
- Smiling tricks your brain into thinking it's happy ;
- If she ran into me now
- ;
- A bully does his research
- Language:
- Nick Garrett's review of Rachel Lowenstein's new book, Getting away
- A short story written with thought-to-text technology ;
- If I was fluent in
- ;
- My spam plays hard to get ;
- Manageable tongue twisters
- We only have time for one more:
- We only have time for one more.