Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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And I thought about how, actually, if you wanted to, you could say the same thing about life. That life is terrifying and overwhelming and it can happen at any moment. And when you’re confronted with life you can either be cowardly or you can be brave, but either way you’re going to live. So you might as well be brave.” More of the You That You Already Are – another case of the absurd premise with serious underpinnings: a guy who plays Chester A. Arthur at a theme park based on US presidents, whose park is being taken over by some misguided scientists, but who also has a sister with cancer who he cares very deeply about Wonderfully absurd and unexpectedly moving. . . . These stories are at times poignant and triumphantly silly, but always manage to ring true.” — Publishers Weekly Ho sempre delle emozioni contrastanti sulle raccolte di racconti. Eh che azzeccarle è difficile, è dura trovare delle raccolte equilibrate. Quelle secondo me che riescono meglio sono quelle che condividono un immaginario comune, o comunque ci portano in un universo condiviso da tutte le storie, ma che allo stesso tempo non ci sia troppa discrepanza tra queste (magari qualcuna molto bella, e altre molto semplici o di poco conto). Per darvi un’idea, per me la Boutique del Mistero e Storie Della Tua Vita di Ted Chiang sono in questo senso delle ottime opere. You remember standing next to Boris and reading the fish tank placard. You would have thought there’d be more to say to each other this night before you said good-bye forever, but it turns out you’d already said everything. So instead of going through it all again, you stood side by side in the silence of the ferry building and read the information at the base of the fish tank.

At one point, Eric looked at you and, grinning, said, “Hey, you’ve got a little . . .” and as he reached for your face, you instinctively jerked away from his hand. You didn’t mean anything by it, this flinch—it just happened—but in an instant, the whole day fell apart. Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You” lists hypothetical scenarios between two people who used to date. In all of the scenarios, there is the sense of lingering tension between the two people. Giorgis: Can you tell me a bit about the surrealist elements in the book? The thing about love, of course, is that your predicament always feels like it’s the most dramatic, earthshaking thing in the world, even—and perhaps especially—when it’s fairly ordinary.It is often silly, superficial, childish, simple and almost never funny- despite it's aim and claim. Rules for Taboo – when game night is both a literal poor choice and a metaphor for poor real-life choices Bob-Waksberg’s fiction debut will capture many readers with its formal innovation, playful language, and relatable portraits of romance gone awry.” — Booklist i wanted to like this a lot more than i actually did. i think the only story i genuinely enjoyed was the last one. other than that, the stories were okay. they had their standout moments, but as a whole, they werent particularly standout in themselves. Bob-Waksberg: Working on a TV show has really helped me to think visually, because I [naturally] think in terms of dialogue, or internal thoughts, first. Often, as a reader, I am less interested in scene description … I don’t have a lot of character descriptions [in the collection] because I like the idea that people can read this story and feel like, Oh, this is me. I think when you hear, “Her blue eyes sparkle,” you might go, Oh, I guess it’s not me then.

Lies We Told Each Other (a partial list) – a sketch of a relationship, from beginning to painful end, rendered in single brushstroke phrases that paint a sparse-yet-totally-specific picture of the way things can deteriorate over time.

These stories] conjure struggles for connection in grimly surreal alternative realities that recall the probing comic imaginings of George Saunders.” — Los Angeles Times i don’t have any feelings about this one, but i will say that he manages his rhyme scheme and scansion much better than lang leav ever has. A Frankenstein-esque monster that is a genetically reconstructed hybrid of the first ten US presidents, all rolled into one