White Dialogues

Bennett Sims
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212 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Oct 10, 2017
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 212
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • ISBN: 9781937512637
  • Dimensions: 5.6" W x 0.5" L x 7.5" H
Bennett Sims was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is the author of the story collection Other Minds and Other Stories (2023), the novel A Questionable Shape (2013), which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the story collection White Dialogues (2017), winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018–19 and named a best book of 2017 by Bookforum. He is a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society Fellowship. His fiction has appeared in A Public Space, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Tin House, and Zoetrope: All-Story, as well as in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He has taught at Bard College, Grinnell College, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
*Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, 2014
*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature, 2018-19
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year —Bookforum

“Anyone who admires such pyrotechnics of language will find 21st-century echoes of Edgar Allan Poe in Sims’s portraits of paranoia and delusion, with their zodiacal narrowing and the maddening tungsten spin of their narratives.”
—Hannah Pittard, New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant... story collection by possibly the smartest and most inventive writer of his... generation.”
—Tony Tulathimutte, Bookforum

"One of the most genuinely terrifying, brilliant short story collections of the past decade. These stories are so smart and so unsettling; every sentence will unnerve you. He’s kind of like if Alfred Hitchcock and Brian Evenson raised a baby with David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker. Sims should be a household name in horror."
—Carmen Maria Machado, Lit Hub

"Sims’s debut story collection elegantly explores the ordinary and fantastic terrors lurking in the deepest recesses of the psyche... This is a cerebral collection for fans of smart, philosophical fiction that is not afraid to follow thought experiments to their most chilling conclusions."
—Publishers Weekly

"These 11 cerebral, uncanny stories marry horror, pop culture, metafiction, and cinema, and the result is a collection unlike any other in recent memory. If you like David Foster Wallace, Godzilla, or both, you need this book."
—The Week

"There are some clever literary stunts scattered throughout this collection, but there’s no doubting the inventiveness of the author’s prose, pacing, and ability to build tension and occasionally dispel it with laughter... A deft collection of spooky fables that pivots from classic stylings to postmodern irony."
—Kirkus

"Bennett Sims blurs the line between madness and genius in his cerebral story collection White Dialogues... Showcasing an ingenious and darkly subversive mind, White Dialogues is a head-trip worth taking."
—Scott Neuffer, Shelf Awareness

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