In the stories that make up this exuberantly praised collection, Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness - a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. Includes:- Mister Squishy- The Soul is not a Smithy- Incarnations of Burned Children- Another Pioneer- Good Old Neon- Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature- Oblivion- The Suffering Channel