My Life in Heavy Metal

My Life in Heavy Metal is a short story collection by Steve Almond published in 2002 by Grove Press. the bulk of the stories are about young men, in their twenties exploring their lives.^[1] The collection contains the following 12 stories:

Table of Contents

My Life in Heavy Metal
Among the Ik
Geek Player, Love Slayer
The Last Single Days of Don Victor Potapenko
Run Away, My Pale Love
The Law of Sugar
The Pass
Moscow
Valentino
How to Love a Republican
Pornography
The Body in Extremis

Previous Publication

The stories were published in the following Magazines^[2]:

My Life in Heavy Metal, and How to Love a Republican, were published in Playboy.
Among the Ik, was published in Zoetrope: All Story.
Greek Player, Love Slayer, was published in the Missouri Review.
The Last Single Days of Don Victor Potapenko, was published in Another Chicago Magazine.
Run Away, My Pale Love, was published in Ploughshares.
The Law of Sugar, was published in The Denver Quarterly.
The Pass, was published in the New England Review.
Moscow, was published in the North American Review.
Valentino, was published in Other Voices.
Pornography, was published in Boulevard.
The Body in Extremis, was published in the Anthology the Ex-Files.

References

1. ^ King, D. (2002) “The geek’s revenge”, London: The Guardian
2. ^ Almond, S. (2002). "My Life in Heavy Metal", New York: Grove Press.