{"title":"Books by Stephen Dixon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"i","title":"I.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award,\u003ci\u003e I.\u003c\/i\u003e is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel  in the form of linked stories  that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the narrator's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as the narrator struggles with his own sense of mortality. \u003ci\u003eI.\u003c\/i\u003e is hardcover, with cover art by acclaimed graphic novelist Dan Clowes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":53391194620177,"sku":"9780971904705","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"end-of-i","title":"End of I.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years ago, McSweeney’s published Stephen Dixon’s acclaimed I. Now, the two-time National Book Award nominee revisits that book’s intimate territory, tightening his unflinching focus even as he widens the scope. Dixon is still a master stylist, and the narrator’s\u003cbr\u003etense, breakneck reflections on loss in all contexts are imbued with remarkable urgency and warmth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":53391587115281,"sku":"9781932416534","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"goodbye-to-goodbye","title":"Goodbye to Goodbye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Stephen Dixon passed away in 2019, American literature lost, in Jonathan Lethem’s words, “a great secret master.” In a career that spanned six decades, Dixon published over seven hundred short stories and had two novels shortlisted for the National Book Award. Arguably, his innovative work represents the earliest appearance of what we now call autofiction, and many of this generation’s writers count him among their greatest influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Goodbye \u003c\/i\u003eis the first major collection of Dixon’s stories since 1994. The current anthology includes work that spans Dixon’s remarkable career, from his very first published story to previously unpublished works written at the end of his life. The stories have been chosen to reflect the development of Dixon’s ever-evolving style, from earlier, more traditional stories; to pioneering experiments with dialogue, point of view, and sentence structure; to what became his trademark: obsessively self-revising texts that reflect experience as if through a funhouse mirror, paradoxically both truly felt and narratively twisted. As J. Robert Lennon writes in his introduction, Dixon’s work “doesn’t efface its artificiality; it doesn’t want its reader, or its author, to disappear.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once deeply personal and comically exuberant, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Goodbye \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases both Dixon’s unique perspective on life and his innovative approach to writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391611068689,"sku":"9781963270822","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_7faf60e9-266c-4537-a4c2-2c4399c62304.jpeg?v=1776867240"},{"product_id":"i-1","title":"I.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn collaboration with the Dennis \u0026amp; Victoria Ross Foundation and the author’s family, McSweeney’s is thrilled to celebrate the life and career of Stephen Dixon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. is an aging author, prone in equal measure to fits of anger and remorse, caring for his two daughters and his ailing wife, whose condition worsens as I. struggles with his own sense of mortality. 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With his characteristic exuberant prose, Dixon probes, almost to the edge of comfort, the minutiae of consciousness, as his aging subject reckons with his life, reflecting on illness, death, family, past friendships, and lost loves. With both narrative playfulness and earnestness, Dixon crafts a poignant meditation on memory and loss that is intensely human and imbued with urgency and warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Stephen Dixon passed away in 2019, American literature lost, in Jonathan Lethem’s words, “a great secret master.” In a career that spanned six decades, Dixon published over seven hundred short stories and nearly twenty novels, two of which were shortlisted for the National Book Award. 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