From the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim comes a collection of the short stories David Sedaris loves most. Containing the work of both contemporary and classic writers, CHILDREN PLAYING BEFORE A STATUE OF HERCULES, edited and introduced by Sedaris, gives his legions of fans a glimpse at the writing he finds inspiring - and helps them discover the truth abut loneliness, hope, love, betrayal, and certain, but not all, monkeys.

David Sedaris fell in love with short stories while living in Odell, Oregon. Sedaris writes, "When apple-picking season ended, I got a job in a packing plant and gravitated toward short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit." Featuring such notable writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates, readers will reconnect with classics, as well discover fantastic but lesser-known writers.

Included in CHILDREN PLAYING BEFORE A STATUE OF HERCULES are:

· Introduction by David Sedaris
· "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired" by Richard Yates
· "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter
· "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
· "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield
· "Half A Grapefruit" by Alice Munro
· "Applause, Applause" by Jean Thompson
· "I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting" by Frank Gannon
· "Where the Door Is Always Open and the Welcome Mat Is Out" by Patricia Highsmith
· "The Best of Betty" by Jincy Willett
· "Song of the Shirt, 1941" by Dorothy Parker
· "The Girl with the Blackened Eye" by Joyce Carol Oates
· "People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk" by Lorrie Moore
· "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
· "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel
· "Cosmopolitan" by Akhil Sharma
· "Irish Girl" by Tim Johnston
· "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff
· Epilogue by Sarah Vowell

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