From the bestselling coauthor of THE DISASTER ARTIST and “one of America's best and most interesting writers" (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark --- unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life.

A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making.

In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises --- writers, video-game developers, actors and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, CREATIVE TYPES is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.

Audiobook available, read by Trisha Miller and Kasey Mahaffy