Showing results for "The Interview" in Genre Fiction

In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula which was published in 1897.

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Was there any particular reason that, near the end of your lives, you suddenly stopped buying Bounty paper towels? So begins the first question from Bounty’s market research representative to Paul and Maggie. In this unique short story, a couple who died suddenly in their 50s recounts their use of Bounty paper towels and their sudden switch to a bargain brand near the end of their lives. What appears to be a run-of-the-mill spat between spouses at the Stop & Shop is revealed to be a defining moment of a marriage years in decline.

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque.

This is a book about vulnerable animals and the men who interact with them. And it's about us. Our pasts and our present, and the way we see the world. It's about the triumph of hope, our infinite capacities to endure and to love - and how we survive through the tales we tell. Most of all, it's a story of homecoming told through a gorilla called Einstein who comes to us with a remarkable secret. He can communicate with humans through sign language.

The story you are about to hear is told from the perspective of Julien, a young journalist in close proximity to a person the Bible calls the “Beast”. Julien will give us a window into the character of the Antichrist and how our last days could unfold according to Scripture’s ultimate plot. This imagined prophetic narrative will also reveal how this coming prince may alter reality and impact humankind - and eventually transform into the most malevolent human in history.

In einer faszinierenden Begegnung zwischen zwei Frauen, Katharina und Abigail, entfaltet sich eine Geschichte, die weit über das bloße Interview hinausgeht. Inmitten des geschäftigen Treibens am Flughafen Los Angeles begegnet man Abigail, einer jungen Journalistin, die nach einem Streit mit ihrem Verlagsleiter neue Wege einschlägt. Sie beschließt, ein Buch über deutsche Frauen zu schreiben – eine Idee, die von den Begegnungen in einem Deutschverein und den Erzählungen der Deutschstämmigen inspiriert wurde - und fliegt nach Deutschland, um Katharina zu interviewen.

Paul Asher, an up-and-coming journalist, returns home from covering the war in Afghanistan to find his life falling apart. His marriage is near collapse, and he’s in the grips of a personal crisis he struggles to understand. And, more pressing, a soldier he befriended on the front lines is waging his own battle after discharge, and Paul is desperately trying to rescue him. But the young reporter’s life takes a strange turn when he is offered an opportunity too intriguing to resist - an interview with someone claiming to be God.

Is it an oxymoron to use the phrase "serious humor"? In An Interview with Jesus, E. Hyland Maze explores the otherwise untouchable realm of verifying the biblical expressions attributed to Jesus, straight from the horse’s mouth, if you will. This is a new adventure that might be called an abridged Red-Letter Edition of the words that Jesus spoke more than 2,000 years ago, but with a new twist.

Weihnachtsgeschichten und -gedichte von Erich Kästner: ein herzerwärmendes Hörbuch rund um rauschebärtige Langfinger, geschenklose Ehemänner, das Problem der Bescherungsgerechtigkeit und die wiederkehrende Erfahrung, dass am Ende des Jahres zuverlässig eine schöne Bescherung droht. "Es hatte schon wieder geklingelt. Das neunte Mal im Verlauf der letzten Stunde! Heute hatten, schien es, die Liebhaber von Klingelknöpfen Ausgang. Mürrisch trollte ich mich türwärts und öffnete. Wer, glauben Sie, stand draußen? Sankt Nikolaus persönlich!

In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered 40 short fictions that they’ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents.

You’re not dreaming. Whether you’re just considering the Rogue Submarine fleet or you’re a veteran whose listened to all the books, the prime villains await. The filters are removed, the gloves are off, and they’re answering tough questions. Some bad guys are answering from prison or from hiding. Others are doing it from beyond from the grave. The interviewer will be fast. The mission is a quick strike. Ask questions, get answers, move on to the next rogue. Too much fun? Too good to be true? Perhaps.

Epaphras hates his "weird" name! Wouldn't you? But only until his dream girl, Teddy, comes back into his life again, and everything changes for the better! Epps organizes and leads a small men's group (MG) at his church and finds that the only problem with serving people is... the people. But despite some, and with the help of others, a terrible thirteen-year-old mystery and a deeply spiritual challenge are both finally successfully resolved.

"Willst du mal eine krasse Geschichte hören?" - so beginnt eine der Geschichten in den "Kurzen Interviews mit fiesen Männern"...