The Paris review book for planes, trains, elevators, and waiting rooms

the long version

"The Paris Review book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms relieves the age-old nuisance called waiting. Waiting to get from A to B. For your name to be called in the nephrologist's office. For the elevator to arrive, the plane to land, the subway to move. This anthology, arranged by length of entry, collects some of the work published in The Paris Review since 1953. Where once you were passed out at the DMV, you now have a novella by Rick Moody. Likewise for the endless commute, a short story by Philip Roth. There's even something to enliven that long lift to the penthouse: poems by Jamaica Kincaid as you ascend."--BOOK JACKET.