NO NEAR EXIT: WRITERS SELECT THEIR FAVORITE WORK FROM
POST ROAD MAGAZINE
Bonus Selections
These pieces were recommended as highly as those in the print anthology No Near Exit, published by Dzanc Books, and you should read them.
Introduction
Table of Contents from the Anthology
Fiction - Becky by Courtney Eldridge, from Post Road 2, selected by Rick Moody
Etcetera - The Strange, Entertaining, and Sometimes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Cleo Birdwell and Don DeLillo by Alan Smithee. from Post Road 2, selected by Molly Jong-Fast
Recommendation - On Bruno Schulz and Bohumil Hrabal by Myla Goldberg, from Post Road 3, selected by Nelly Reifler
Recommendation - A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean by Nicholas Dawidoff, from Post Road 4, selected by Anthony Swofford
Fiction - Paternity Within the Limits of Reason by Diana George, from Post Road 4, selected by Ben Marcus
Recommendation - Blood by Patricia Traxler by Margot Livesey, from Post Road 4, selected by Amy Scheibe
Etcetera - Essay: Listerine: The Life and Opinions of Laurence Sterne by John Wesley Harding, from Post Road 5, selected by Rebecca Donner
Recommendation - P.G. Wodehouse by A.E. Hotchner, from Post Road 6, selected by Jessica Shattuck
Fiction - What God Sees by Scott D. Pomfret, from Post Road 6, selected by David Ebershoff
Fiction - Dream Children by Edith Pearlman, from Post Road 7, selected by Jennifer Haigh
Fiction - August by Holly LeCraw, from Post Road 8, selected by Tom Perrotta
Theatre - Drop It by Michael Collins, from Post Road 9, selected by Neil LaBute
Nonfiction - Relief: Afghanistan, 2001 by J. Malcolm Garcia, from Post Road 9, selected by Edward Hoagland
Fiction - Theater of the Cruel by Eugenio Volpe, from Post Road 9, selected by Adrienne Miller
Nonfiction - The Dogcatcher Hates Politics by Matt Roberts, from Post Road 10, selected by Pagan Kennedy
Fiction - Now It’s Clean by Nina de Gramont, from Post Road 10, selected by Brock Clarke
Recommendation - Trash Sex Magic by Jennifer Stevenson by Audrey Niffenegger, from Post Road 10, selected by Yael Goldstein Love
Etcetera - Report: Vegas Valley Book Festival by Tod Goldberg, from Post Road 12, selected by Jami Attenberg
Recommendation - Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913-1965, edited by Tim Page by Elissa Schappell, from Post Road 12, selected by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Etcetera - Tour Diary: The Diviners, North America, 2005 by Rick Moody, from Post Road 12, selected by Elizabeth Searle
Recommendation - On Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, or How I Got ‘Sheeped’ by Peter Rock, from Post Road 13, selected by Fiona Maazel
Etcetera - First Publications, from Post Road 13, selected by Don Lee
Etcetera - Index: Characters from The Stories of John Cheever, from Post Road 13, selected by Lewis Robinson
Etcetera - Anthology: The Blurbs of Thomas Pynchon, Compiled by Patrick Lane, from Post Road14, selected by Wesley Stace
Fiction - Victor by Michael Czyzniejewski, from Post Road 15, selected by Virgil Suarez
Etcetera - Note: Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell by Currer Bell, from Post Road 15, selected by Hannah Tinti
