The hero, based loosely on the author as a young newspaperman, harasses a neighbour by making loud noises in the night and pretending to be a member of a sinister terrorist group called Numéro Cinq.
[8][9] Sion Dayson's essay "Life Lessons in Père Lachaise Cemetery" selected for inclusion in Utne Reader, The Best of the Alternative Press, July/August Issue, 2012.
American writers include: Madison Smartt Bell, Lydia Davis, Sam Savage, Steve Almond, Dodie Bellamy, Jen Bervin, Eula Biss, Jody Bolz, David Ferry, Rigoberto González, Donald Hall, Noy Holland, Shane Jones, Pierre Joris, Gordon Lish, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Joseph McElroy, Greg Mulcahy, David Wojahn, Robert Wrigley, Diane Williams, William Olsen, Nancy Eimers, Brad Watson, Anthony Doerr, Keith Lee Morris, Darin Strauss, Trinie Dalton, Nance Van Winckel, Joe David Bellamy, Jess Row, Sydney Lea, David Rivard, Donald Breckenridge, Leslie Ullman, Johannah Rodgers, Jeremy Brunger, Richard Jackson, Dawn Raffel, Russell Working, Lynne Tillman, Jack Myers, and Domenic Stansberry.
Canadian writers include: Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Mavis Gallant, Bill Gaston, Mark Anthony Jarman, Ann Ireland, David Helwig, Mike Barnes, Danila Botha, Michael Bryson, John B. Lee, Karen Mulhallen, Stephen Henighan, Genni Gunn, Goran Simic, Dave Margoshes, Keith Maillard, Cynthia Flood, Tess Fragoulis, Clark Blaise,[14] Steven Heighton, Connie Gault, R. W. Gray, David Homel, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Gilles Pellerin, Dawn Promislow, Lee D. Thompson, Ian Colford, Jack Hodgins, and S.D.
Work in translation includes: Quim Monzó, Juan José Saer, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Viktor Shklovsky, Cesare Pavese, Kazushi Hosaka, Anton Chekhov, Mihail Sebastian,[15] Giacomo Leopardi, Habib Tengour, Besik Kharanauli, Rilke, Blanca Castellón, Horace, Liliana Heker, Andrzej Stasiuk, Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul-Armand Silvestre, Paul Éluard and Mathias Énard.