Bargain @ $2.99 for today only (Nov 19th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard stores, price good for Canada & US, possibly other regions as well, etc.):
Twice Upon a Time by the late Daniel Stern (
Wikipedia), a collection of his literary stories remixing other literary stories, originally published in various literary magazines and first collected by W. W. Norton & Co. in 1992.
This is a bit pricier than ORM's fiction sale titles usually are, but I'll note that Stern's two other collections of reimagined classics from them are currently priced at $9-13 CAD each, depending on where you look.
More sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel Stern
In Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature—from Forster to Freud—in homage to their authors and the power of great writing.Twice Upon a Time continues the project, though this time Stern goes further, weaving stories around texts as diverse as Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Melville’s famous copyist is relocated to Hollywood; the hero is an agent who “would prefer not to retire.”
Infectiously clever, Twice Upon a Time enchants like the best of the authors to whom it pays tribute.