This collection gathers diverse voices exploring the disorienting and often profound experience of amnesia. Through short stories and essays, writers examine how memory loss shapes identity, reality, and human connection. It's a fascinating look at what remains when the past fades.
Jonathan Lethem is the author of Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse, a collection that explores the end of the world. He's known for his imaginative fiction that often blends genres.
Thomas Palmer is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores memory and its absence. He writes fiction with a keen eye for the human condition.
Julio Florencio Cortázar (Ixelles, 26 de agosto de 1914-París, 12 de febrero de 1984) fue un escritor, poeta y profesor argentino. También trabajó como traductor, oficio que desempeñó para la Unesco y varias editoriales. En 1981, sin renunciar a su nacionalidad argentina, optó por la francesa en protesta contra la dictadura militar en su país, que prohibió sus libros y que él denunció a la prensa internacional desde su residencia en París. Se lo considera uno de los autores más innovadores y ori...
Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for Time's Arrow and longlisted in 2003 for Yellow Dog). Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 20...
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.
Source: [Shirley Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson) on Wikipedia.
Lawrence Shainberg is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores the curious landscape of memory. His work often plays with perception and the nature of reality.
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
Walker Percy, author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, explores themes of memory and identity in his thought-provoking writing. He's a writer who makes you think about what it means to remember.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 24 de agosto de 1899 - Ginebra, 14 de junio de 1986), más conocido como Jorge Luis Borges, fue un destacado escritor de cuentos, poemas y ensayos argentino, extensamente considerado una figura clave tanto para la literatura en habla hispana como para la literatura universal. También fue bibliotecario, profesor, conferencista y traductor. Sus dos libros más conocidos, Ficciones y El Aleph, publicados en los años cuarenta, son recopilaciones d...
Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien. He also wrote the novel An Béal Bocht as well as many satirical columns in the Irish Times under the name Myles na gCopaleen. He was born in Strabane, County Tyrone.
Most of O'Nolan's writings were occasional pieces published in periodicals, which explains why his work has only recently come to enjoy the considered attention of lit...
Edmund Valentine White III is a patriarch of modern gay American literature, having contributed novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays, non-fiction as well as fiction, dealing with a range of social topics, frequently involving same-sex love.
His best-known works include The Joy of Gay Sex (with Charles Silverstein) and his autobiographic-fiction trilogy A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.
Karen Joy Fowler is the editor behind The New Wave Fabulists and McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales. She's a fantastic curator of imaginative fiction.
Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.”
He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...
Geoffrey O'Brien is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores memory and its absence. His writing often touches on history and culture.
Dennis Potter is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores themes of memory and identity. His work often blends historical fiction with a touch of the surreal.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].)
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
Valentine Worth is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a novel that explores memory and identity. They write fiction that often touches on the past and its hold on the present.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed t...
Anna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity. - Wikipedia
Thomas M. Disch was a writer who explored science fiction and dark fantasy. His work, like The Vintage Book of Amnesia, often played with memory and identity. He was a sharp voice in speculative fiction.
Donald Barthelme, author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, offers a unique perspective on the human condition. His work often explores themes of memory and identity with a distinctive, often humorous, touch. He's a writer who makes you think.
Christopher Priest is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores the strange and often unsettling corners of memory. His work frequently touches on science fiction and psychological suspense.
Russell Conwell Hoban was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London, England, from 1969 until his death.
Steve Erickson is the author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, a collection that explores memory and its absence. His writing often touches on themes of identity and the passage of time.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 23 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as among his most important novels and is his most widely kn...
John Franklin Bardin, author of The Vintage Book of Amnesia, is a writer whose work often explores themes of memory and identity. His fiction is known for its sharp wit and unsettling atmosphere.
Kelly Link is a master of the strange and wonderful. Her stories, often found in collections like McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, blend fantasy, horror, and a touch of the surreal. If you like your fiction with a twist, you'll love her work.
