{"product_id":"everything-here-is-the-best-thing-ever-stories-9780061881817","title":"Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This spare, sharp book--Taylor's debut collection--documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human ... the most affecting stories in \u003cem\u003eEverything Here Is the Best Thing Ever\u003c\/em\u003e are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers--and writers, too--might be seeking out for decades to come.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of prophetic, provocative, and dazzlingly written stories by Justin Taylor, an important new voice in literary fiction and \"a new literary beast.\" (Padgett Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Interrogative Mood\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story in this crystalline, spare, and moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious, often tragic impasses with reality. A high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic. An assistant at a hedge fund is torn between the girl he loved in college and the older man whose attention he craves. A fast food employee preoccupied by Abu Ghraib grows obsessed with a co-worker. While his girlfriend sleeps, a Tetris player tries to beat his record, nevermind that out their window blazes the end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFearless and wild, the stories of \u003cem\u003eEverything Here Is the Best Thing Ever \u003c\/em\u003eare held together by a thread of wounding humor and candid storytelling that marks Taylor as a distinct and emerging literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaylor, Justin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJustin Taylor is the author of the story collection \u003cem\u003eEverything Here Is the Best Thing Ever\u003c\/em\u003e and the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel of Anarchy\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459899166994,"sku":"9780061881817","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3072b65-e503-4091-8dd5-b5bf90fe43ba.jpg?v=1730013028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-here-is-the-best-thing-ever-stories-9780061881817","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}