Tenth of December
by George Saunders | 
A Fine and Pleasant Misery
by Patrick F. McManus | 
The Grasshopper Trap
by Patrick F. McManus | 
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
by Patrick F. McManus | 
Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie | 
Lake Wobegon Days
by Garrison Keillor | 
Passion and Affect
by Laurie Colwin | 
Mulliner Nights
by P. G. Wodehouse | 
The Insanity Defense
by Woody Allen | 
One More Thing
by B. J. Novak | 
Tabloid Dreams
by Robert Olen Butler | 
Happy to Be Here
by Garrison Keillor | 
To Skin a Cat
by Thomas McGuane | 
Kafka Americana
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Not a Star
by Nick Hornby | 
Nonsense Novels
by Stephen Leacock | 
Literary Lapses
by Stephen Leacock | 
The Carriage
by Nikolai Gogol | 
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris | 
Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris |
A middle-aged man beheads his wife, then calmly explains how she drove him to it . . . A fat little mafioso is going to war--in the clean, well-mannered streets of Minneapolis . . . A Jewish boy watches with wonder the rise and fall of a Hebrew school rebel--and sees the sadness at the heart of his own family. . . . Welcome to the world of Ethan Coen, one half of the filmmaking team that has unleashed a visionary, brutal, and uproarious portrait of America in such screen classics as "Fargo" and "Raising Arizona." Now Ethan Coen translates that vision to the printed page--in fourteen keenly imagined, sharply etched short stories. Blending parody with pathos, making the heinous heartbreaking, Coen demonstrates his unique gift for stunningly inventive narrative, brutal irony, offbeat characters, and crackling dialogue, delivering everything you would expect from such an original imagination.