Jim Shepard
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Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.79 — 446 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories by Jim Shepard avg rating 4.09 — 205 ratings — published 2004 |
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Project X by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.79 — 176 ratings — published 2004 3 editions |
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Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs by Jim Shepard, Amy Hempel avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1999 |
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Nosferatu: A Novel by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.50 — 22 ratings — published 1998 3 editions |
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Batting Against Castro: Stories by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.79 — 19 ratings — published 1996 |
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You'Ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe by Jim Shepard avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 1999 |
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Kiss Of The Wolf by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Lights Out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1990 2 editions |
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Flights by Jim Shepard avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1983 2 editions |
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"I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors."
— Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories)
— Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories)
"But what I did was the kind of thing you'd do and the kind of thing you've done: I felt bad for him and for myself and I went on with my week and then my summer and I started telling my story to whoever would listen. And my story was this: I survived camp. I survived my brother. I survived my own bad feelings. Love me for being so sad about it. Love me for knowing what I did. Love me for being in the lifeboat after everyone else went under. And my story made me feel better and it made me feel worse. And it worked."
— Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories)
— Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories)
