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Here are 13 new stories and Baumbach's selected previous works, which have appeared in such diverse compilations as Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction-collected together for the first time. Whether they star a King Kong-like giant ape with a human-sized penis, or a mild-mannered psychologist with a fondness for female patients, or a female patient with a fondness for mild-mannered psychologists, Baumbach consistently reinvents traditional character-type and the traditional story.