Watchlist
Subtitle: 32 stories by persons of interest
By: edited by Bryan Hurt
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9781936787418
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: Watch list :
Description: "In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, meditate on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, Watchlist unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched?"--
Notes: "First published in the US by OR Books"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Bryan Hurt; title: Nighttime of the city  -- Robert Coover; title: Sleeping where Jean Seberg slept  -- Katherine Karlin; title: Testimony of Malik, Israeli agent, prisoner #287690  -- Randa Jarrar; title: The relive box  -- T. Coraghessan Boyle; title: Scroogled  -- Cory Doctorow; title: California  -- Sean Bernard; title: Adela, primarily known as, The black voyage, later reprinted as, The red casket of the heart, by Anon  -- Chanelle Benz; title: Ladykiller  -- Miracle Jones; title: The transparency project  -- Alissa Nutting; title: The gift  -- Mark Irwin; title: What he was like  -- Alexis Landau; title: The entire predicament  -- Lucy Corin; title: Coyote  -- Charles Yu; title: Terro(tour)istas  -- Juan Pablo Villalobos; title: Safety tips for living alone  -- Jim Shepard; title: Prof  -- Chika Unigwe; title: The witness and the passenger train  -- Bonnie Nadzam; title: Moonless  -- Bryan Hurt; title: Our new neighborhood  -- Lincoln Michel; title: Buildings talk  -- Dana Johnson; title: Lifehack at Bar Kaminuk  -- Mark Chiusano; title: Making book  -- Dale Peck; title: Dinosaurs went extinct around the time of the first flower  -- Kelly Luce; title: Ether  -- Zhang Ran; title: Drone /r Miles Klee --; title: Transcription of an eye /  -- Carmen Maria Machado; title: The taxidermist /  -- David Abrams; title: Second chance  -- Etgar Keret; title: Strava  -- Steven Hayward; title: We are the Olfanauts  -- Deji Bryce Olukotun; title: Viewer, violator  -- Aimee Bender; title: Thirteen ways of being looked at by a Blackbird SR71 -- Paul Di Filippo.