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 one...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Grove,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.
