{"product_id":"white-dialogues-isbn-9781937512637","title":"White Dialogues","description":"With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eA Questionable Shape\u003c\/i\u003e, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories.\u003cp\u003eA house-sitter alone in a cabin in the woods comes to suspect that the cabin may need to be “unghosted.” A raconteur watches as his personal story is rewritten on an episode of \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e. And in the collection’s title story, a Hitchcock scholar sitting in on a \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e lecture is gradually driven mad by his own theory of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these eleven stories, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted by their environments, obsessions, and doubts. Told in electric, insightful prose, \u003ci\u003eWhite Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound exploration of the way we uncover meaning in a complex, and sometimes terrifying, world. It showcases Sims’s rare talent and confirms his reputation as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, 2014\u003cbr\u003e*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature, 2018-19\u003cbr\u003e*Named one of the Best Books of the Year —\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Anyone who admires such pyrotechnics of language will find 21st-century echoes of Edgar Allan Poe in Sims’s portraits of paranoia and delusion, with their zodiacal narrowing and the maddening tungsten spin of their narratives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Pittard, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant... story collection by possibly the smartest and most inventive writer of his... generation.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tony Tulathimutte, Bookforum \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most genuinely terrifying, brilliant short story collections of the past decade. These stories are so smart and so unsettling; every sentence will unnerve you. He’s kind of like if Alfred Hitchcock and Brian Evenson raised a baby with David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker. Sims should be a household name in horror.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Carmen Maria Machado, Lit Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sims’s debut story collection elegantly explores the ordinary and fantastic terrors lurking in the deepest recesses of the psyche... This is a cerebral collection for fans of smart, philosophical fiction that is not afraid to follow thought experiments to their most chilling conclusions.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These 11 cerebral, uncanny stories marry horror, pop culture, metafiction, and cinema, and the result is a collection unlike any other in recent memory. If you like David Foster Wallace, Godzilla, or both, you need this book.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are some clever literary stunts scattered throughout this collection, but there’s no doubting the inventiveness of the author’s prose, pacing, and ability to build tension and occasionally dispel it with laughter... A deft collection of spooky fables that pivots from classic stylings to postmodern irony.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bennett Sims blurs the line between madness and genius in his cerebral story collection White Dialogues... Showcasing an ingenious and darkly subversive mind, White Dialogues is a head-trip worth taking.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Scott Neuffer, Shelf Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBennett Sims\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther Minds and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), the novel \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Questionable Shape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, and the story collection \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018–19 and named a best book of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Tin House\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in the \u003ci\u003ePushcart Prize Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught at Bard College, Grinnell College, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233852371173,"sku":"NP9781937512637","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781937512637.jpg?v=1767744122","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/white-dialogues-isbn-9781937512637","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}