In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters
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| Author | Robert Coover |
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| Publisher | Burning Deck Press |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 59 |
| ISBN | 978-0930901165 |
In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters is a collection of short fiction by Robert Coover. The stories originally appeared in periodicals and were first collected in 1983 by Burning Deck Press, issued in a limited edition.[1]
The pieces in the volume may be classified as prose poems ("proems") or "metafictional exercises".[2]
All the stories were first published in periodicals as indicated below.[3]
- "The Debris" (Panache, 1971)
- "The Old Man" (Panache, 1973)
- "In Bed One Night" (Playboy, January 1980)
- "Getting to Wichita" (Oink!, 12 (XII, 1976)
- "The Tinkerer" (Antaeus, Winter 1976)
- "The Fallguy's Faith" (Triquarterly, Winter 1979)
- "An Encounter" (Panache, 1971)
- "The Convention" (Panache, 1977)
- "The Beginnings" (Harper's Magazine, March 1972)