Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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Carlos will clear the two cereal bowls, part of the brand-new set you bought when you moved here, and on the way to the sink, he’ll kiss you gently on the forehead, the very forehead that’s been so gently kissed by so many men, a marker amid thousands in a graveyard of kisses. Rufus” is narrated by a dog named Rufus. Rufus attempts to be a good friend and companion to his owner. His owner enters a relationship, which soon ends tumultuously. Rufus then comforts his owner. From the author of Fight Club, comes a dark, irreverent, hilarious, and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil.

Here, have an overly-long excerpt from "You Want to Know What Plays Are Like?", which I absolutely read in Will Arnett's voice before I realized the speaker was a woman: It is often silly, superficial, childish, simple and almost never funny- despite it's aim and claim. Perhaps a better me would have done the right thing and left, or a worse me wouldn’t have worried about it, just indulged in the transgression, but I am only as good as I am, and I could only do what the person as good as I am could do. a bitterbleak comedy, in outline form, bullet-pointing a couple’s relationship arc—all the empty reassurances, promises, self-delusions, and gaslighting that goes into maintaining a healthy modern relationship. another brief one, but it’s astute and funny, plus it gets points for successfully suggesting the entire body of a relationship using only these skeletal snippets.

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Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You – a short, fun take on what to do when you have that awkward request for a reunion lunch, and how to navigate every possible outcome. The flippant, gameshow-like narration lets this one really sing.

But here I was, sitting in my childhood bedroom with a guitar. The Up-and-comers were over and done with and it was just Lizzy and me and it was the afternoon and it was summer in Tulsa and Lizzy was lying on my bed, looking as calm and beautiful as I had ever seen her, and she was asking me to play her something I had written.Giorgis: How did you think about writing about guilt, especially in stories such as “We Men of Science,” which follows a man who transgresses in a series of small ways that ultimately prove disastrous? A Frankenstein-esque monster that is a genetically reconstructed hybrid of the first ten US presidents, all rolled into one A prose poem of sorts, simply titled “the poem,” is about a love poem gone awry was one of the experimental pieces that worked well - a sort of self-referential and metafictive piece that sang.

A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion” follows a man named Peter who is engaged to be married to a woman named Dorothy. Peter and Dorothy want a very simple wedding, but under the pressure of their families, they obey many strange elaborate wedding ceremonies that are considered traditional in the world of this story. I loved Mutt, in that way that you love something when you’re at a place in your life when you’re ready to love something and there’s a thing there that you can love.”

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The stories are clever and fun but always with lots of heart, and sometimes with some lovely writing: Some of the stories, I realized, as I was working on them, that the gender didn’t matter. It’s like, what if I just got rid of all the gender indicators and let this be ambiguous? Sometimes that ambiguity gets in the way, but that’s a challenge. You don’t want to [create] this vague everyperson. In “Salted Circus Cashews, Swear to God,” a woman goes on a first date with a man. The date goes well, but then the man gives the woman a can of cashews. The long label on the can makes many unconvincing claims that it is not actually a prank filled with spring-loaded rubber snakes. Another story that stood out was the (in comparison) quite a middle-of-the-road office romance turned sour in “The Average of All Possible Things.” But the central character Lucinda and her inner struggles are so realistically portrayed that you can’t help but feel for her as she tries to maintain a stoic front at work.