<div><b>Eisenberg is truly a talented writer. . . Hilarious and poignant.”<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br><i>Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories</i> is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also for his regular pieces in the<i>New Yorker</i> and his two critically acclaimed plays, Eisenberg is an emerging voice in fiction.<br><br>Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, <i>Bream Gives Me Hiccups</i> moves from contemporary L.A. to the dormrooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by the man’s sister, who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide (<i>The situation reminds me of a little historical blip called the Karadordevo agreement</i>); in another, a college freshman forced to live with a roommate is stunned when one of her ramen packets goes missing (<i>she didn’t have one” of my ramens. She had a chicken ramen</i>); in another piece, Alexander Graham Bell</div>