Results for "Sims, Bennett"

* An ABA "December 2023 Indie Next List" pick.From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection.A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls that come to haunt his relations... Read More about Other Minds and Other Stories

Mazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of blood in his father's house: the man has gone missing. So he creates a list of his father's haunts and asks Vermaelen to help track him down. However, hurricane season looms over Baton Rouge, threatening to wipe out any un... Read More about A Questionable Shape (Two Dollar Radio New Classics)

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19*Named one of the Best Books of the Year --Bookforum SynopsisWith all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories. A house-sitt... Read More about White Dialogues

In a style that's both personal and analytical, retired Episcopal Bishop Bennett Sims offers a penetrating critique of the extremist religious and political assumptions that underlie the domestic and foreign policies of President George W. Bush. He contrasts two radically opposed conceptions of powe... Read More about Why Bush Must Go

In a world, and in churches, so often caught up in a relentless pursuit of power, Bishop Bennett Sims challenges us all to look afresh at what it means to be servants of one another. It is an invigorating, deeply enriching experience His conclusions are sometimes radical, and we shall not agree wit... Read More about Servanthood

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19*Bard Fiction Prize 2014*The Believer Book Award Finalist*One of the Best Books of 2013 --Complex Magazine, Book Riot, Slate, The L Magazine, NPR's 'On Point', Salon Mazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of blood in... Read More about A Questionable Shape