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Twelve “hilariously entertaining”stories (Bob Chacochis, author of Easy in the Islands) by an award-winning author and humorist about rugged and not-so-rugged individualists who survive and thrive in a conformist society. Meltzer has won both the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes for his fiction. From PEOPLE: What did he think of my idea, I wanted to know. He'd be talking with his people, he said. He wanted to run it by his people. He would want to run some numbers. I could touch base in a week or so, or one of my people. He himself would be out of pocket for a while, but I could check in with his girl, or one of my people could check in with his girl or my girl could check in with his girl. From KAFKA ON PROZAC: Monday: I am on my back, it's hard to roll over, and there are all these legs. Long, hairy legs. I feel no alarm or distress. It is just different; things were a certain way yesterday and today they are a different way.