I "discovered" short stories a couple years ago and I've been really devouring them.
I bought this anthology put out by The New Yorker and have been slowly making my way through. There are so many great stories but this particular three story run from the early 90s, on pages 374 to 410, really sent me for a loop.
– Emergency by Denis Johnson
– The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
– Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
In Emergency drug-addled hospital workers interact with the world in bizarre ways, the Jones story is about the chaos of the Vietnam war, and Wolff stops time during a bank robbery gone wrong to look back at one's life.
The limits placed on the short story seem to allow so many different approaches and I find it fascinating.
by Peppery_penguin
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“Emergency” is part of a novel-in-stories called *Jesus’ Son*, and it’s an extraordinary book.
The book is great !! There was also a movie with Billy Crudup , but I haven’t seen it .