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By the author of Little Big, this story collection (A Chicago Tribune Notable Book) ranges from 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award-winning "Spring Break.”
Reading John Crowley's stories is to see almost-familiar lives running parallel to our own, secret histories that never quite happened, memories that might be real or might be invented. In the thirteen stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award winning story "Spring Break". And in the magnificent "Anosognosia" the world brought about by one John C.'s high-school accident may or may not exist.
“Not quite like anything you have ever read, a sentiment that applies to so much of Crowley’s work. And Go Like This is a distinguished, eclectic collection that deserves a large, appreciative audience. I hope it finds one.” — William Sheehan, Washington Post
“There’s also ‘Anosognosia,’ the only story not previously published. It’s a terrific fantasia on a familiar Crowley theme — ‘There is more than one history of the world,’ as he put it in the tetralogy ‘Ægypt.'”
— Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune Notable Book
“The stories in And Go Like This are wise, compassionate, and deftly crafted. Rather than straining to hold an operatic note, they tend to hum. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself humming along.” — Vince Czyz, Arts Fuse
“Accomplished, moving, and wise.” — Tor.com
“Haunting and gorgeously written.” — Locus
“The sort of book that’s perfect for the gathering darkness of November evenings by the fire.” — Amazing Stories
“A compassionate, ruminative eye frames the sepia-tinted worlds of the fifth collection from erudite fantasist Crowley (Ka). The stories are drawn from the last 20 years of Crowley’s long career and span the breadth of speculative and literary short fiction. . . . This collection’s recurring refrains—’pay attention,’ Shakespeare, injuries and aging, the agony of making choices—coalesce into a reading experience like a long afternoon spent with an intimate, excellent raconteur.” — Publishers Weekly
“And Go Like This is an eclectic sampler of his characteristic preoccupations cast in realist and fantasy modes. While many of the tales express a faith in existential possibilities being actualized by pragmatic decisions, a few are darker, dramatizing how ageing, disease and other impediments narrow options and constrain potential.” — Michael Saler, Times Literary Supplement
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
In the Tom Mix Museum
And Go Like This
Spring Break
The Million Monkeys of M. Borel
This Is Our Town
Mount Auburn Street:
1. Little Yeses, Little Nos
2. Glow Little Glow-Worm
3. Mount Auburn Street
Conversation Hearts
Flint and Mirror
Anosognosia