{"product_id":"goodbye-to-goodbye-stephen-dixon-9781963270822","title":"Goodbye to Goodbye: Selected Stories","description":"\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current anthology includes work that spans Dixon's remarkable career, from his very first published story to previously unpublished works written at the end of his life.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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963270827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963270822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McSweeney's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Stephen Dixon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659799310591,"sku":"9781963270822","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goodbye-to-goodbye-stephen-dixon-9781963270822","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}