A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino’s reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction. Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, groundbreaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of stories spans thirty-five years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories.