The Vintage Book of Amnesia ed. Jonathan Lethem (Random House, October 2000, 0-375-70012-9, $14.00, 414pp, tp, an)
Anthology of 30 stories and one article (an Oliver Sacks case study) about amnesia. Authors include Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Shirley Jackson, and Jorge Luis Borges. Lethem’s introduction discusses amnesia as a “modern mood” and genre, and provides “An Incomplete Annotated Bibliography of Amnesia Fiction”.
- xiii · Introduction · Jonathan Lethem · in
- 3 · Dream Science · Thomas Palmer · ex Ticknor & Fields, 1990
- 21 · The Night Face Up · Julio Cortázar; translated by Paul Blackburn · ss The New Yorker April 22 1967
translated from the Spanish (“La noche boca arriba”, Final del juego, Los Presentes, 1956).
- 30 · Other People · Martin Amis · ex (r)
- 40 · Nightmare · Shirley Jackson · ss Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson, Bantam, 1997
- 56 · Memories of Amnesia · Lawrence Shainberg · ex 1988
- 71 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1953
- 81 · Soul Walker · Brian Fawcett · ss Public Eye by Brian Fawcett, Grove/Atlantic, 1990
- 93 · Cowboys Don’t Cry · L. J. Davis · ex (r)
- 103 · The Second Coming · Walker Percy · ex (r)
- 119 · Funes, His Memory · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r)
- 127 · The Black Curtain · Cornell Woolrich · ex Simon & Schuster, 1941
- 141 · The Third Policeman · Flann O’Brien · ex MacGibbon & Kee, 1967
- 156 · Five Fucks · Jonathan Lethem · nv The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem, Harcourt Brace, 1996
- 176 · Forgetting Elena · Edmund White · ex (r)
- 184 · Sarah Canary · Karen Joy Fowler · ex Henry Holt, 1991
- 196 · The Last Hippie · Oliver Sacks · nv An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks, Knopf, 1995
- 227 · Notes Toward a History of the Seventies · Geoffrey O’Brien · ex (r)
- 237 · Ticket to Ride · Dennis Potter · ex (r)
- 248 · The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds · Haruki Murakami; translated by Alfred Birnbaum · ss The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, 1993
- 254 · Geoffrey Sonnabend’s Obliscence; Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter—An Encapsulation · Valentine Worth · ex (r)
- 261 · I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon · Philip K. Dick · ss Playboy December 1980, as “Frozen Journey”
- 280 · The Zebra-Struck · Anna Kavan · ss from Julia and the Bazooka (r)
- 296 · The Squirrel Cage · Thomas M. Disch · ss New Worlds SF #167, 1966
- 311 · Louse · David Grand · ex (r)
- 321 · Game · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker July 31 1965
- 326 · The Affirmation · Christopher Priest · ex Faber and Faber, 1981
- 339 · Kleinzeit · Russell Hoban · ex (r)
- 343 · Days Between Stations · Steven Erikson · ex Poseidon, 1985
- 354 · “That in Aleppo Once…” · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1943
- 364 · The Deadly Percheron · John Franklin Bardin · ex Dodd, Mead, 1946
- 385 · Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose · Kelly Link · ss Fence 1998
- 401 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi
- 405 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg
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