{"product_id":"white-dialogues-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646887661842,"sku":"9781937512637","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a43f6b99-6fd7-40d7-b9a8-9a9340c4acdf.jpg?v=1765369614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-dialogues-9781937512637","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}