EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER: STORIES

New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 190 pages. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important - yet underrated - literary debuts of our time. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. Presents Justin Taylor's "Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever: Stories". At its very best, worthy and distinctive successor-work to those of his recent predecessors in David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, and Jonathan Safran Foer, writing in the same sardonic, rueful, and ironic vein. "Each story in this crystalline, spare, and moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious, often tragic, impasses with reality. A high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic. An assistant at a hedge fund is torn between the girl he loved in college and the older man whose attention he craves. Held together by a thread of wounding humor and candid storytelling that marks Taylor as a distinct and emerging literary talent" (Publisher's blurb). "Documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected, and human. The most affecting stories are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Justin Taylor collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (one week after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Justin Taylor 2/17/10". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-month dated copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0061881813.