Gordon Lish

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Books in Order: 18 titles

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  • Corner Kicker

    Years ago, Gordon Lish, editor at Esquire and at the house of Knopf and the revisionist who changed the work of Raymond Carver, published the book Peru, a shocker in which Lish tells of his having killed a child in a neighbor's sandbox. The setting i...

  • Collected Fictions

  • Death and So Forth

    With Death and So Forth, esteemed writer and editor Gordon Lish returns with a new book of scintillating short fiction. With his trademark precision, wit, and wiliness, Lish writes outside the margins and around the edges of the death, loss, and the ...

  • Egress

    “We must have writers whose singularity compels our attention, and readers who are worthy of them.” -- Veronica Scott Esposito, Attention & The Future of Narrative, Egress #1

    Little Island Press presents Egress, a journal of the most...

  • White Plains

    Lish’s latest collection of exquisitely crafted fictions sees a narrator " variously 'Gordon', 'I', 'He' " approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infideli...

  • Cess: A Spokening

    A list. What could be more basic than a list? And a list by Lish is sure to intrigue. In this, Lish’s latest work, he delivers a characteristic exhibition of his peculiar deformities of candor, obsession, and wit, via two extended “notes” to th...

  • Goings

    Goings: In Thirteen Sittings is Gordon Lish’s first completely original work in sixteen years, thirteen stories that mark the ongoing vitality of one of the era’s enduring scribes.Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential editors of our ...

  • Krupp's Lulu

    In his fifth collection of stories, Gordon Lish once again demonstrates his intelligence, passion, and gift for language. Through these pieces and the spaces within them, the reader learns what occupies the fictional Lish, and, in essence, everyone.<...

  • Epigraph

    Told through a series of letters written to various church volunteers, an account of a man reflecting on a particularly draining period of his life takes place after the death of his wife of several decades and presents an unflinching portrait of gri...



  • Zimzum

    The narrator, a quintessential New Yorker, is barely able to hold on to his sanity as it is daily challenged by his wife, his parents in their nursing home, and the people he encounters in everyday life...

  • My Romance

  • The Quarterly

  • Extravaganza

  • Winter 1988

  • Mourner at the Door

    A collection of stories by the author of "Dear Mr. Capote" and "Peru" captures the significance of the trivial details and everyday experiences that often add up to create the majority of an individual's memories...

  • What I Know So Far

  • Dear Mr. Capote

  • All Our Secrets Are the Same

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gordon Lish has published 18 books.

Gordon Lish does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Corner Kicker, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Gordon Lish, All Our Secrets Are the Same, was published in January 1976.

No. Gordon Lish does not write books in series.
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