On the Rocks
The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology
By Rebecca Donner (Editor); Denis Woychuk (Foreword by)
(St. Martin's Griffin, Paperback, 9780312301521, 288pp.)
Publication Date: November 2002
Categories: Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Many of today's most celebrated and up-and-coming writers have climbed the narrow staircase to the splintered podium at New York City's KGB Bar to share their work at the Sunday night fiction series. This funky East Village watering hole, once the expat meeting house of Ukrainian socialists, has grown over the last decade into one of the choicest venues for literary talent.
On the Rocks compiles stories from some of the most talented writers of today, including David Gates, Mary Gaitskill, Jonathan Lethem, and Aimee Bender. Edgy, hard-bitten prose comes shoulder to shoulder with the lyrical and the fanciful, capturing the full range of voices in contemporary fiction. In subject and style, these pieces roam far and wide, but they all share the spirit of a night at KGB: provocative, daring, and dynamic.
Rebecca Donner has been Literary Director of the KGB Sunday Fiction Series since 1998, and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel will be published in Spring 2003.
"United only by their uniformly high level of originality and artistry, these innovative stories make for a top-flight anthology, a treat for anyone who wants to sample the best in contemporary fiction."—Publishers Weekly
"[Donner], the series' literary director, has selected 20 stories from writers who have read at KGB and whose work exemplifies its spirit as "a place where risk is celebrated and boundaries are transcended."—Library Journal
"White lightning in printed form . . . Enjoyable, terrifying, addictive: the kind of anthology readers deserve."—Kirkus Reviews
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