We Loved the World But Could Not Stay
Published on 12. July 2022
208 pages
978-1-64428-339-4 (ISBN)
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""I write stories that are only one sentence long," I explain to you as I plant this book like a time-bomb in your public library, "because imperfection is easier to tolerate in small doses." With unparalleled wit and wisdom, Gary Lippman's We Loved the World But Could Not Stay is a collection of intricately constructed single-sentence stories that chronicles the outrageous and the everyday with insight and empathy, all while reimagining and reorganizing the very concept of the story and the basic building blocks of our language."
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Born and raised in New Jersey, Gary Lippman received a law degree from Northwestern University and has worked with New York's Innocence Project. Lippman's play Paradox Lost ran off Broadway for a month in 2001 and his writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, and more. Having lived in Illinois, Florida, California, and France, Lippman can now be found in what used to be called "Fun City" with his imaginary French bulldog, his very real Hungarian wife, and a whenever-he's-inclined-to-visit adult son.
Content
- Intro
- THE INGREDIENTS IN THIS BOOK INCLUDE:
- MOONBURN
- WHOLE LOTTA PASTA GOIN' ON
- ROOM 48 IN THE HEART OF AUTUMN
- FEET
- I'M YOUNG BUT YOU LOOK ME OLD
- WHAT THE WORD "FUCK" MEANS
- I'LL FLY AWAY
- WE THOUGHT WE LOST YOU.WELCOME BACK
- MY RESUME
- DOJO LOGIC
- DOJO LOGIC: THE SEQUEL
- PAVANE FOR A DEAD JEWISH PRINCESS
- CATCH OUR SOULS
- WHO IS SHERRY DILLINGER AND WHAT IS SHE DOING IN AN ALLEY NEAR CHICAGO'S BIOGRAPH THEATER?
- THE DARKNESS AROUND US IS DEEP
- WHO LOVES YA, BABY?
- DEREK COMES ALIVE
- DEREK COMES ALIVE: THE SEQUEL
- "IT'S ALL A JOKE"
- VOICI LES CLES: A TRIPLE PLAY
- A CUSTODY BATTLE ACCOMPANIED BY THE MUSIC OF BURT BACHARACH AND HAL DAVID
- EDEN OR BUST
- I'M GOING TO HELL FOR THIS ONE
- THE NERVE OF LIFE TO CRASH OUR PARTY
- NAP ANYA, AHOY!
- SHORTIES: A PU PU PLATTER WITH GUMBO SOUFFLE
- FROM KETHER TO MALKUTH
- THE HAWK MUST SWOOP
- RUN, VERNITA, RUN
- THE RIVER GIRL
- LICKING HONEY FROM A THORN
- CREATURE FEATURE
- UNDER ENCHANTMENT
- MILLBURN
- BE GROOVY OR LEAVE
- "I'M HERE TO HELP," SAYS LORNA LIEBMILCH
- SWEET AS APPLE CIDER
- FREAK-OUTS, SHAKE-UPS, AND LETDOWNS
- SHOUT OUT OVER THE WATER: "I WON'T BE HERE LONG"
- SCROOGE SCHOOL
- PALE RED
- TABASCO SAUCE, WEAPONIZED
- THINKING OF RICHARD BRAUTIGANAND OTHER NICE THINGS
- IN WHICH THE READER IS INVITED TO DISCOVER A CERTAIN GAME
- THEY CALL HER "CANDY THUNDER"
- WANDERING STAR
- LIFE IS A DRUG THAT STOPS WORKING
- HISTORY'S DEFUNCT PROFESSIONS: #4382
- LET'S GO THUNDERING
- GOOFY
- AN ASS-PINCHER IN ISTANBUL
- NOSE DEEP
- MEMORIES OF COLONEL SANDERS
- WOULD YOU HIRE THIS PERSON?
- WOULD YOU HIRE THIS PERSON?: THE SEQUEL
- CURTAINS
- IMPROVED BY VERKA
- APPROVED BY GABOU
- HERE AT THE SHRINER FAIR
- THIS BABALAWO'S FOR HIRE
- THREE VERSIONS OF AHASUERUS
- LOLLIPOPS FOR EVERYONE
- THIS DREAM IS SHORT BUT THIS DREAM IS HAPPY
- HAVE YE NO DREDE (STORY VIA AL)
- AND NOW, A VALUABLE TIP FOR THE NEWLY DEAD.
- ROCK 'N' ROLL HERNIA (1)
- WOLF SETS THE SCENE
- COME, JOSEPHINE, IN MY SWINGING MACHINE
- SPARKS FLY UPWARD
- WHAT THE DWARF KING SAID
- K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K
- STRAWBERRY (1) (VIVA BARBARA P.)
- HOLD YOUR MUD: A TRIPLE PLAY
- THE TORTURE RARELY STOPS
- A BAR MITZVAH WITH MUSCLE
- SO THIS IS THE FOREST OF ARDEN!
- WHAT THE OLD ONES HAVE IN MIND
- OLFACTORY SORROW
- STEVE THE DRUID SURFER REPEALING THE LAWS OF TIME
- VOYEURISM, REVERSED
- HERE'S ONE FOR THE MOTORHEADS
- STRAWBERRY (2)
- BABYLON, DC (VIVA LARRY FRANKEL)
- MISREADINGS
- ENJOY ME WHILE I LAST
- GOT "CARBO-HIGH-DRATES" IF YOU WANT 'EM
- GOT KIDNAP INSURANCE IF YOU WANT IT
- A LOCKED SAFE FULL OF AUTUMN LEAVES
- LEGS
- (LET'S HAVE A) GENE POOL PARTY
- BUY ME SOME STARDUST
- TEARS ARE ROUND, THE SEA IS DEEP, ROLL THEM OVERBOARD AND SLEEP
- FIND THE LEVEE, BURN IT DOWN
- HALLELUJAH, I'M READY TO GO
- CLEAR RECEPTION
- THE JACK STORY
- MY WEAKNESS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS (1)
- THE AMERICAN MYSTERY DEEPENS
- INCLINED TO BOOGIE
- SYNAGOGUE TIME TRAVEL
- THE WHEEL HAS TURNED AND I AM HERE
- THE BALLAD OF COCO AND CALVIN
- THE HEART OF A CHAMPION
- STEAM
- LESSONS FROM THE DRUNK TANK
- ROSES TO DEADEN THE CLODS AS THEY FALL
- ONE COLD VIBE WON'T STOP THIS HERE BOOGIE
- LIFTOFF WITH AYSHEA
- STORY COMPOSED OUTSIDE THE RUINS OF THE NEVELE HOTEL
- THE WHAMMY, CLEVELAND STYLE
- CHOCOLATE (1)
- WHIRL IS KING
- NATHAN RIGOLETTI HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE!
- FULL CHICKEN REALNESS
- HOOK-MOON
- SHORTIES: A SALMAGUNDI WITH HURRICANE DROPS
- LATE FLOWERING
- POWER: LESSON 18
- THE CLAW OF THE SEA-PUSS WILL GET US ALL IN THE END
- FREAKY SUCKAGE
- THE CONJURED WORLD
- A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ASHER
- ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES A LYCANTHROPE
- THIS STORY IS A MACHINE FOR EXORCISING A GHOST
- GUNPOWDER ON HIS BREATH
- BE MY BRENDA 8
- SAID THE WOMAN WITH CROPPED GRAY HAIR
- CAKE-WALKING MONOZYGOTE FROM HOME
- BEWARE THE GOLEM
- THE MUSA CALLIOPE
- THE TIME WE LEARN IS NOW
- ON THE ORAL INGESTION OF DOVE SOAP
- PRESIDENT CARLYLE, MARKED FOR DEATH
- ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOL: A DOUBLE PLAY
- WHICH GAME IS AFOOT? (OR, THE CASE OF THE RETIRED HOMICIDE DETECTIVE)
- ENCORE
- WHEN WISHING STILL HELPED.
- THANATOS TRUMPING EROS
- WHAT FOOLS WE WERE TO SIGN UP FOR TIME
- BACHELORETTE
- IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS, THEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING
- THERE'S A LAW, THERE'S AN ARM, THERE'S A HAND
- HAUNT ME OUT: A TRIPLE PLAY
- POWDER BLUE
- CRIME SOLVERS: HELSINKI
- EL PRECIOSO MASTURBADOR
- BUY YOURSELF SOME FREAK-OUT INSURANCE
- GET ME TO GOLGOTHA ON TIME
- GOING MAD TOGETHER
- A BUMBLEBEE ON YOM KIPPUR
- BLOW ME DOWN
- EVERYTHING TRIES TO BE ROUND
- THE WALL UP
- WHATEVER SHE BRINGS, WE SING
- OUT, DEMONS, OUT!
- WAKE UP, YOU
- ROCK 'N' ROLL HERNIA (2)
- EIGHT LADIES FROM THE LATE EIGHTIES
- WHO PUT THE BENZEDRINE IN GARY LIPPMAN'S OVALTINE?
- ANOTHER VERSION OF AHASUERUS
- ULTIMA THULE, DO YER STUFF!
- A CLOWN ISN'T FUNNY IN THE MOONLIGHT
- THIS STORYTELLER'S BEGINNING
- TOO MUCH PORK FOR JUST ONE FORK
- LULU LORE: A TRIPLE PLAY
- THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT, ILLUSTRATED
- KICK
- PRETTY MUCH NOT YOUR STANDARD SADDLE SORE
- DRESS SEXY AT MY FUNERAL
- NUTS FOR MAUGHAM
- O, WHAT A BLOODY MANICHEAN MESS.
- CATCH
- CHATTY
- IF THE WORLD WAS PERFECT, IT WOULDN'T BE
- BU LOI
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AUNT MINNIE!
- CHRISTMAS ON EARTH EVERY DAY
- WATCH US VANISH
- DOG IN FOG
- SMASHED FULL OF WONDER
- ONE BABY TO ANOTHER SAYS.
- I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES
- THE WHAMMY, AZTEC STYLE
- SHORTIES: A SMORGASBORD WITH ZOMBIE BUTTER
- TRAPDOOR TO HADES
- ME AND MY MEDUSA
- CUPID: THE MOTHERFUCKER
- ONCE A FATHER, ONCE A SON
- TERRI MAE HAD BAD LUCK WITH SAMOYEDS
- THE SPY WHO LIKED TO MIX RED WINE WITH COCA-COLA
- SHOCKER
- IN ESTHER THERE IS NO EAST OR WEST
- MOVING MERCURY AROUND
- MURDER IN MY HEART FOR BOSCO HUTCHINS
- MY WEAKNESS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS (2)
- BIBLIOMANIAS
- IN A PERHAPS MORE FERLINGHETTIAN WORLD
- "HIGH-BACKED WOLF," "LIMBER LANCE," "LEFT-HAND SHOOTER," "WOODEN LEG," "BRIGHT SUN MAKER," "ROMAN NOSE," "COYOTE DROPPINGS," "BLACK MOON," "BAD FACE," "PLENTY COUPS," "DRY THROAT," "SIX FEATHERS," "BLOODY KNIFE," "CROW KING," "CUT BELLY," "BIG PRISONER," "LOOKING GLASS," "SHAVE HEAD," "SKY CHIEF," "THUNDER MAN," "ONE BRAID," "STIFF NECK," "FIAT WAR CLUB," "KIT FOX," "HUSH-HUSH-CUTE," AND "TIMBERED MOUNTAIN"
- TOWER OF REUBEN
- LIQUORED UP AND LACQUERED DOWN
- DOES ALFRED E. NEUMAN HAVE A BROTHER?
- CHOCOLATE (2)
- TAKE A WHIFF ON ME
- THE TALE OF THE ARCHER'S WIFE
- QUETZALCOATL'S CHOICE
- WAY OUT WEST: A DOUBLE PLAY
- ANOTHER FLASHING CHANCE AT BLISS
- A NON-GOLFER READS GOLF MAGAZINE
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UNCLE NORBERT!
- TRITON'S CHOICE
- A HEART WITH EXTRA MUSCLE
- GO HOME AND DIG IT!
- A DUNE BUGGY BUILT FOR TWO
- "CSILLOG A FENY"
- STANDARD NIPPLE WORKS
- LET THE SKY RAIN PLANTAINS
- WHO LOST IT AT THE MOVIES?: A TRIPLE PLAY
- CONSOLATION FOR THE BALD
- TILL THERE WAS EUBIE
- LARCENY-HEARTED ME
- ARROW TO BULL'S-EYE
- ENDLESS BOOGIE
- POINT YOUR PINKIE TO THE NORTH STAR
- A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME
- I'M HAPPY AND I'M SINGING AND A 1, 2, 3, 4
- AFTER-LIFERS
- SOMEONE'S USED-TO-BE
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, UNCLE MO!
- THE STORY OF MY LIFE IN 200 WORDS OR LESS
- MIRACLES HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THEM
- FUCKING LIGHTNING
- OH, WHAT A BLOW THAT PHANTOM DEALT ME
- PARIS IN SPRINGTIME WITH CARLOS
- PARIS IN SPRINGTIME WITH CARLOS: THE SEQUEL
- THIS BOXER'S BEGINNING
- HONEY, COME QUICK WITH THE IODINE
- HOW TO GET DIVERTED
- CARLO ZENO, IF YOU PLEASE: A DOUBLE PLAY
- SISTER DELANEY'S LIP-SMACKIN' SOUL FOOD KITCHEN
- SAINT DEATH VS. CINDY
- FANGS OF ROSY FLINT: A DOUBLE PLAY
- SHORTIES: A DESSERT BAR WITH SWEETBLOOD TEA
- THE CIARDI
- ROCK 'N' ROLL HERNIA (3)
- LET'S DRESS LIKE MINNIE PEARL
- HERE AT THE FRIED LIVER WASH
- THEY'LL HAVE TO CATCH US FIRST
- THE JUMBLY BOY
- MORE YOU BECOMES YOU
- ZAKHOR (WHAT YOU GAVE)
- SWEET LEAF
- SHAKE HANDS WITH LIPPY
- THE LAST LIVING PICTISH SPEAKER ON THE PLANET
- GOODBYE, MY BOOK!
- MOONBURN: THE SEQUEL
- "ALS ICH KAN"
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
