Bream gives me hiccups
Subtitle: & other stories
By: Jesse Eisenberg
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780802124043
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Youth; American Humorous stories; Fiction; American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (The situation reminds me of a little historical blip called the Karađorđevo agreement); in another, a college freshman forced to live with a roommate is stunned when one of her ramen packets goes missing (she didn't have "one" of my ramens. She had a chicken ramen); in another piece, Alexander Graham Bell has teething problems with his invention (I've been calling Mabel all day, she doesn't pick up! Yes, of course I dialed the right number--2!)" --
Table of contents: title: Bream gives me hiccups : restaurant reviews from a privileged nine-year-old --; title: Family:; title: My little sister texts me with her problems ;; title: Separation anxiety sleepaway camp ;; title: My mother explains the ballet to me ;; title: An email exchange with my first girlfriend, which at a certain point is taken over by my older sister, a college student studying the Bosnian genocide ;; title: My prescription information pamphlets as written by my father ;; title: My nephew has some questions --; title: History:; title: Men and dancing ;; title: Final conversation at Pompeii ;; title: Alexander Graham Bell's first five phone calls ;; title: Marxist-Socialist jokes --; title: My roommate stole my ramen : letters from a frustrated freshman --; title: Dating:; title: A post-gender-normative man tries to pick up a woman at a bar ;; title: A post-gender-normative woman tries to pick up a man at a bar ;; title: A guy on acid tries to pick up a woman at a bar ;; title: A lifelong teetotaler, embarrassed by his own sobriety, tries to pick up a woman at a bar --; title: Sports:; title: Marv Albert is my therapist ;; title: Carmelo Anthony and I debrief our friends after a pickup game at the YMCA ;; title: A marriage counselor tries to heckle at a Knicks game --; title: Self-help:; title: Smiling tricks your brain into thinking it's happy ;; title: If she ran into me now... ;; title: A bully does his research --; title: Language:; title: Nick Garrett's review of Rachel Lowenstein's new book, Getting away ;; title: A short story written with thought-to-text technology ;; title: If I was fluent in... ;; title: My spam plays hard to get ;; title: Manageable tongue twisters --; title: We only have time for one more:; title: We only have time for one more.