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Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories

Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick's Whiskey, Etc., is filled with stories that are funny and serious, outrageous and everyday.

Readers will meet a cast of characters ranging from a woman who cleans her soon-to-be ex-husband's house to a woman who seduces her paperboy. These stories are short but pack an emotional punch, leaving readers reveling in the complexity of our strange lives.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Autumn House Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 21st, 2016
  • Pages: 228
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9781938769238
  • Categories: LiteraryShort Stories (single author)Family Life - Marriage & Divorce

About the Author

Sherrie Flick is the author of the short story collections, I Have Not Considered Consequences, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc. (all published by Autumn House Press), the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), and the essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press). Whiskey, Etc. was the winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy's Best Fiction Books of 2016. A story from Thank Your Lucky Stars was performed at Symphony Space and aired on NPR's Selected Shorts. She served as coeditor of the anthology Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton) with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks' Creative Corps.

Praise for this book

Named to 'Best of 2016: Best Fiction Books' List-- "Entropy" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Flick's collection keeps readers engaged with her crisp and lyrical writing. Her eye for detail is poetically rendered, and she turns the mundane into the beautiful."--Megan Douglas "Barrelhouse Reviews" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Flick nails the ending every time."--Kelly Lynn Thomas "Eleventh Stack" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"As if dining on small plates of delicious food, doubters of brevity's value will leave Whiskey, Etc. feeling pleasantly full."--Fred Shaw "Pittsburgh City Paper" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)