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We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live.

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.

Florian Lukas liest T.C. Boyles großen Roman über die obsessive Liebe zweier Männer zu einer Frau, die sich zwischen ihnen nicht entscheiden mag. Terry, ein Arzt aus Los Angeles, zieht nach dem Tod seiner Mutter in ihr Haus in Boulder City in der Wüste Nevadas. Eigentlich wollte er es verkaufen, wäre er nicht in einer Bar Bethany begegnet, die sich bei ihm einquartiert – gegen seinen Willen. Der eigenbrötlerische Terry kann ihr nicht widerstehen. Aber da ist auch noch ihr eifersüchtiger Ex-Freund Jesse, der immer wieder auftaucht und ihn warnt: "Sie ist Gift".

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue...

The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals: cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon - and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcée and her dog, and more!

The fourteen stories gathered here, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as in The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Stories volumes, display T. C. Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are the...

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are...

Angelle's father is a drunk, and Angelle and her little sister, Lisette, know it. Their mother has told them as much. But their mother has abandoned them and gone back to France, leaving only the empty promise to return behind. Now Angelle is the key witness in a case that may decide whether she and Lisette are taken away from their father. Angelle must choose between the truth that could hurt them all and the "necessary truth" her father's lawyer wants her to tell.

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American...

It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast? "Wild Child" is based on the story of Victor of Aveyron, the feral child brought from the French wilderness to Paris in an attempt to civilize him. It is the story of a boy who, at the tender age of five, had his throat slit in the forest and was left for dead.

The threads that lead to a tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Gordon is a delivery driver with a predilection toward road rage, and he's on the most important delivery of his life. In Santa Barbara there's a mother of three on life support waiting for Gordon, waiting for the liver he's transporting from Los Angeles. But there's a mudslide, and cars are being swept away, people being buried in the sludge. And Gordon, who's as far from a hero as they come, has to find a way to get the liver to Santa Barbara.

Was passiert, wenn die Natur zurückbeißt? – Der neue Roman von T.C. Boyle. Der Countdown zur Apokalypse läuft: Kalifornien geht in Flammen auf, Überschwemmungen bedrohen Florida. "Der Planet stirbt, siehst du das nicht?", wirft Cooper seiner Mutter vor, die ihre Küche gehorsam auf frittierte Heuschrecken umstellt. Heftige Diskussionen gibt es auch mit Schwester Cat. Sie hat sich als Haustier eine Tigerpython namens Willie angeschafft, die sie sich wie ein glitzerndes Juwel um die Schultern hängt.

Zwei Welten, die sich fremder nicht sein könnten: hier América und Cándido, illegale Einwanderer aus Mexiko, dort das Ehepaar Mossbacher – liberale, umwelt- und ernährungsbewußte Angloamerikaner in Los Angeles ... Der Zusammenstoß Cándidos mit Delaney Mossbachers wachsgepflegtem Auto ist ein wortwörtlicher: Delaney sieht seine geschützte Welt zunehmend bedroht: Kojoten dringen in das Grundstück ein und töten die kleinen Hunde, dunkelhäutige, verdächtige Gestalten lungern herum, wo er seine Wanderungen macht.

In high school Nisha worked as a dog-sitter for the Strikers, eccentric millionaires, taking care of their prized Afghan, Admiral. When she returns after college to tend to her ill mother, the Strikers call on her once again. But this time they want her to take care of Admiral II, the clone of their deceased dog. The original Admiral's experiences must, of course, be replicated as closely as possible.

Lonnie is tired. He's tired of his job, the monotony of it, and tired of the predictability ofhis home life now that he's a father. It's a day like every other day, and hecan't face the inevitability of it all. So he lies. It's a small lie, but heknows small lies become big ones. He knows it as soon as he says his daughteris in the hospital. But he can't stop himself, and he can't stop the lie fromtaking on a life of its own.

This short story from Wild Child was originally published in A Public Space. Reeling from his second divorce, Hunter is taken out on a party boat by his old college roommate, Damian. Looking forward to the promise of distraction, and maybe even the chance to meet a woman, Hunter acquiesces to the fishing adventure, despite his tendency toward seasickness. But outings with Damian are just as uncertain as the sea.

The story of a young woman shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of California. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.