Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims ISBN 9781953387356, 9781953387363, 1953387357, 1953387365 instant download

Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims ISBN 9781953387356, 9781953387363, 1953387357, 1953387365 instant download

* An ABA "December 2023 Indie Next List" pick.From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape & White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, & hilarious new collection.A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relationship with jealousy & dread. A well-meaning locavore tries to butcher his backyard chickens humanely, only to find himself absorbed into the absurd violence of the pecking order. A student applying for a philosophy fellowship struggles to project himself into the thoughts of his hypothetical judges, becoming increasingly possessed & overpowered by the problem of other minds. And in “The Postcard,” a private detective is hired to investigate a posthumous message that a widower has seemingly received from his dead wife, leading him into a foggy landscape of lost memories, shifting identities, & strange doublings.Cerebral & eerie, captivating & profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia & obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of overthinking what other people might be thinking. With all of Sims’s trademark virtuosity, innovation, & wit, Other Minds & Other Stories continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction.°°°Bennett Sims was born & raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize & was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, & the story collection White Dialogues (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018–19 & named a best book of 2017 by Bookforum. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, & Zoetrope: All-Story, as well as in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He has taught at Bard College, Grinnell College, & the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.