Everything here is the best thing ever : stories [WorldCat Entities]

"Justin Taylor's crystalline, spare, and oddly moving prose cuts to the quick. His characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious but often tragic impasses with reality: a high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic, a fast-food employee preoccupied by Abu Ghraib becomes obsessed with a coworker, a Tetris player attempts to beat his own record while his girlfriend sleeps and the world outside their window blazes to its end. Fearless and astute, funny and tragic, this collection heralds the arrival of a unique literary talent."
"Stories feature characters guided by misapprehensions, such as the high school boy who resorts to black magic to win over his crush, and a Tetris player attempting to beat his own record while the world ends."@en