Outsiders

Twelve hilariously entertainingstories (Bob Chacochis author of Easy in the Islands) by an award-winning author and humorist about rugged and not-so-rugged individualists who survive and thrive in a conformist society. Meltzer has won both the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes for his fiction. From PEOPLE: What did he think of my idea I wanted to know. He'd be talking with his people he said. He wanted to run it by his people. He would want to run some numbers. I could touch base in a week or so or one of my people. He himself would be out of pocket for a while but I could check in with his girl or one of my people could check in with his girl or my girl could check in with his girl. From KAFKA ON PROZAC: Monday: I am on my back it's hard to roll over and there are all these legs. Long hairy legs. I feel no alarm or distress. It is just different; things were a certain way yesterday and today they are a different way.