Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His previous books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He lives in New York.

"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

Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His previous books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He lives in New York.

"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

Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for his notable work with authors including Raymond Carver, Denis Donoghue, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, and Christine Schutt, among many others. His previous books include Dear Mr. Capote, What I Know So Far, Mourner at the Door, Extravaganza, Peru, Zimzum, The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish, and more. He lives in New York.

"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