Collected Stories 1947–1965
Gil Orlovitz
December 3, 2024
ISBN 9798218527310 / Paperback / 408 pages / $22.99

A collection of all twenty-two known short stories by American poet, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Gil Orlovitz, author of the cult novels Ice Never F and Milkbottle H.

Written between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, these stories capture Orlovitz's sharp wit, surreal humor, and deep empathy for outsiders adrift in postwar America. His work, by turns experimental, absurd, and lyrical, bridges the worlds of Beat, modernist, and early postmodern fiction.

Cover design by the author's son, Ethan Orlovitz.

"As to Orlovitz, I find him at his best, very good. Certainly his delivery seems original."
— Charles Bukowski (1958)