*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year --Bookforum
Synopsis
With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A
Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and
wide-ranging collection of stories.
A house-sitter alone in a cabin in the woods comes to suspect that the
cabin may need to be "unghosted." A raconteur watches as his personal
story is rewritten on an episode of This American Life. And in the
collection's title story, a Hitchcock scholar sitting in on a Vertigo
lecture is gradually driven mad by his own theory of cinema.
In these eleven stories, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror
to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted
by their environments, obsessions, and doubts. Told in electric,
insightful prose, White Dialogues is a profound exploration of the way
we uncover meaning in a complex, and sometimes terrifying, world. It
showcases Sims's rare talent and confirms his reputation as one of the
most exciting young writers at work today.