The Tao of Humiliation

Lee Upton
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014

Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era

Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman.

Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 05/13/2014
ISBN: 9781938160325
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2014 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014
New York Times Book Review 07/27/2014 pg. 30
Library Journal 09/15/2014 pg. 73
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 49