Gordon Lish
Krupp's Lulu
Short Stories

What do you say about Lish's stuff? Apart from saying it takes its own self to say anything about it. Here it does it in over three hundred pages, which is a record for Lish. Get the book and see for yourself. It's got gobs of stories in it that are not even one of them like any other story you are ever going to be told — unless it turns out you are tuned to a frequency where the language that is spoken was devised solely for the heart of the listener who is like no other listener. Krupp's Lulu is the title of the one book you positively must own. It gives you Lish's most important work to date, a claim that will be beside the point except for those for whom the literature of America, as the history of America is bound to write it, matters as much as life itself.

Gordon Lish is the author of eleven works of fiction. He was an editor at Esquire and at Alfred A. Knopf, edited The Quarterly, and was a teacher for years.

Praise for Gordon Lish:
"… Worthy of Laurence Sterne or Samuel Beckett and as uproarious as either." — Kirkus (starred)

"With writing reminiscent of Stein or Beckett, Lish reminds his readers that the actual past and the remembered past are different, and he fleshes out every possible perspective … These details — haunting, funny, ordinary, pitiable — are the real stuff of life." — Boston Review