145 Stories in a Small Box

I am a huge McSweeney's fan, and I love everything they publish. I just finished the first two books of the three included in One Hundred Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box. The authors include Deb Olin Unferth, Sarah Manguso, and Dave Eggers. I saved the Eggers book for last. :)

Here's a little bit about the set, which I recommend reading while curled up at night drinking hot chocolate with bouncy marshmallows.


In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set brings together individual short-fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form: Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, and Deb Olin Unferth. Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape offers up crystalline recollections of childhood flashpoints; Eggers’s How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth’s rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and indelible misadventures. Each author’s work comes in its own hardcover foil-stamped volume, and the three volumes are housed in an elegant slipcase decorated with bears and golden smoke.