My Life in Heavy Metal
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My Life in Heavy Metal is a short story collection by Steve Almond
Steve Almond
Steve Almond is an American short story writer and essayist. He is the author of eight books.-Life:He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter,...

 published in 2002 by Grove Press. the bulk of the stories are about young men, in their twenties exploring their lives. 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:

My Life in Heavy Metal, and How to Love a Republican, were published in Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

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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
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...

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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
North American Review
The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...

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Valentino, was published in Other Voices.

Pornography, was published in Boulevard.

The Body in Extremis, was published in the Anthology the Ex-Files.
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