Nelson Algren's Book of Lonesome Monsters

From back cover, "These exciting stories by some of the most talented writers of contemporary fiction are a terrifying testimonial to the realization that we are all monsters, and always alone"&'A common tie unites the strangler of a child, the creative artist, the classic eroticist and the murderer in fiction...'Contents:Preface - Nelson Algren'World Full of Great Cities' by Joseph Heller'Talk to Me, Talk to Me' by Joan Kerckhoff'Show Biz Connections' by Bruce Jay Friedman'Hundred Dollar Eyes' by Bernard Farbar'The Man Who Knew What Ethiopia Should do about Her Water-table' By H.E.F Donohue'Among the Dangs' by George P. Elliott'Peacetime' by Brock Bower'The Shores of Schizophrenia' by Hughes Rudd'Day of the Alligator' by James Blake'Address by Gooley MacDowell to the Hasbeens Club of Chicago' by Saul Bellow'The Closing of this Door Must be Oh, So Gentle' by Chandler Brossard'Entropy' by Thomas Pynchon'The House of the Hundred Grassfires' by Nelson Algren