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Bin Laden's Bald Spot

A collection of humorous short stories from the award-winning author of The Plover and Mink River.

Welcome to the peculiar, headlong world of Brian Doyle’s fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of story, laughter and rage, ferocious attention to detail and sweeping nuttiness, tears and chortling—these stories will remind readers of the late giant David Foster Wallace, in their straightforward accounts of anything-but-straightforward events; of modern short story pioneer Raymond Carver, a bit, in their blunt, unadorned dialogue; and of Julia Whitty, a bit, in their willingness to believe what is happening, even if it absolutely shouldn’t be.

Funny, piercing, unique, memorable, this is a collection of stories readers will find nearly impossible to forget.

“To read Brian Doyle is to apprehend, all at once, the force that drives Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman, and James Joyce, and Emily Dickinson, and Francis of Assisi, and Jonah under his gourd. Brian Doyle is an extraordinary writer whose tales will endure. The sublime ‘Waking the Bishop’ is going to inhabit American anthologies forever and ever.” —Cynthia Ozick, New York Times–bestselling author of Heir to the Glimmering World

“What I like about Brian Doyle’s writing is that it’s real—it’s got mud and blood and tears but it’s also got earthly angels who teach him to grasp on to each small epiphany as it opens before him.” —Martin Flanagan, author of The Call and The Art of Pollination

Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle is the editor of "Portland Magazine" at the University of Portland, in Oregon--the best university magazine in America, according to "Newsweek, " and "the best spiritual magazine in the country," according to Annie Dillard. Doyle is the author of ten previous books: five collections of essays, two nonfiction books ("The Grail," about a year in an Oregon vineyard, and "The Wet Engine," about the "muddles & musics of the heart"), two collections of short prose, and the sprawling novel "Mink River," which "Publishers Weekly" called an "original, postmodern, shimmering tapestry of smalltown life." Doyle is a four-time finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and his essays have appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's," "Orion, ""The American Scholar," and in newspapers and magazines around the world. His essays have also been reprinted in the annual "Best American Essays," "B""est American Science & Nature Writing," and "Best American Spiritual Writing" anthologies. Among various honors for his work are a Catholic Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and a 2008 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He once made the all-star team in a Boston men's basketball league, and that was a "really tough league." He lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife and children.

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