Like Life
by Lorrie Moore | 
Bark
by Lorrie Moore | 
Shroud
by John Banville | 
Hallucinating Foucault
by Patricia Duncker | 
G.
by John Berger | 
The Grandmothers
by Doris Lessing | 
The Dead Father
by Donald Barthelme | 
Continent
by Jim Crace | 
The Light of Day
by Graham Swift | 
The Thinking Reed
by Rebecca West | 
Dead Babies
by Martin Amis | 
The Driver's Seat
by Muriel Spark | 
A Kestrel for a Knave
by Barry Hines | 
them
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Great Apes
by Will Self | 
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by Lorrie Moore | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace |
Disillusioned and loveless, a chain-smoking art history professor who spends her spare time singing in nightclubs and tending to her young daughter finds herself pursued by an erratic, would-be librettist.