Tim Key is the author of Instructions, Guidelines, Tuteledge, Suggestions, Other Suggestions, and Examples Etc: An Attempted Book.For the Guardian, he named a top ten list of bite-size books. One title on the list:
Elephant by Raymond CarverRead about the other books on Key's list.
Just short stories. But the best short stories ever written. Carver's a master of the genre. Carver writes with incredible economy. Nothing much happens. And yet we watch the character's lives change irreparably before our eyes. American, too, so he uses phrases like "he fed it some gas". Nice.
--Marshal Zeringue