Belly up : stories

“If you’re also reading spine-tingling horror to process our nerve-popping realities, Bullwinkel’s short story collection needs to be added to the top of your TBR list. Her short story on two teen girls who obsess over cannibalism gives a whole new meaning to girl dinner.” — Margaret Lin, Vanity Fair °°° Throughout these grotesque & tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given & what their bodies require to be sustained.Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, & carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque & tender stories, characters question the bodies they’ve been given & what their bodies require to be sustained.°°° Rita Bullwinkel's writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, & Guernica. She is a recipient of grants & fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, & The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction & translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at large for McSweeney's. She lives in San Francisco & teaches at the California College of the Arts. Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained. At the intersection of the surreal and the real, Rita Bullwinkel has carved out a unique space in which the mundane and the strange cohabitate and sometimes frolic. The sharp, precise writing and careful observations of the human condition in her excellent first collection Belly Up signal the debut of a major new talent. Jeff VanderMeer These stunning stories take place in the spaces between ordinary objects and events. They are mysterious, strange, and fearlessly funny in their expression of human isolation, and they contain the existential surprises of great literature. Belly Up is a powerful debut by an unusually gifted writer. Lorrie Moore Bullwinkel's delightful, passionate stories of disturbance and worried words have the best kind of frenetic energy. Deb Olin Unferth Belly Up offers 17 stories that mesmerize and delight, each exploring the experience of having a body with profound curiosity and tenderness. Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : isbn:978-0-9985184-4-2 Single Author : Rita Bullwinkel Original Source : New_Files_Trainpack_16_48 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Bullwinkel, Rita Title Length : 008 Title Parm D : Belly Up Title Parm F : Belly Up Title Parm G : Belly Up Title Parm A : Belly Up Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 918 Uncomma Author : Rita Bullwinkel Num of Aut : 1 Harp -- Phylum -- Black tongue -- Burn -- God's true zombies -- What I would be if I wasn't what I am -- Nave -- Arms overhead -- Hunker down -- Decor -- Concerned humans -- Fried dough -- In the South, the sand winds are our greatest enemy -- Passing -- Mouth full of fish -- What girl built -- Clamor.