Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Lite...
John BarthBarth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them ne...
Ann Beattie’s collection contains a novella and nine stories. Three of the stories zero in on the same character, a woman who, in her final appearance, is having a hard time handling the eccentricities of her elderly mother. The...
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This...
Robin BlackHeralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black's If I Loved You, I Would Tell You Thistakes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all...
Devoted to Wicked - A Devoted Lovers ...
Shayla BlackA one-night stand…or something more? Karis isn't sure until a thief strands her in Mexico, leaving her in need of a passport photo—and a hero—and giving Cage a second chance to win her love. This book is a cross-over between bot...
New Frontiers: A Collection of Tales ...
Ben BovaNew Frontiers, fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo AwardFrontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devoti...
A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world–and imagination–knows no boundaries. "I don't know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from," said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction...
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (Vi...
A. S. ByattA ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Rev...
"These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence."—National Book Award citationA...
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories...
Bonnie Jo Campbell"Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural America's postindustrial landscape." —Boston GlobeNamed by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rur...
Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your suburban living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses spins a rollicking tale of happiness and disappointment; and where a desperat...
Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ron Carlson“Ron Carlson’s novel is in the coming-of-age tradition, with the contemporary attributes of humor and cool. . . . I liked Larry for his unpretentiousness, his wry, caring angle on experience.” —New York Times In this tender, c...
Ron Carlson is a master of the contemporary short story. In The Blue Box, he extends that mastery to the short short story, offering us a captivating glimpse of a writer at play. With that voice of his-sharp, sensitive, and wry, brimm...
I read Ron Carlson's stories again and again. I read them to my friends at dinner parties and over the phone. I even read one to my dad. I think 'A Note on the Type' might be the best story in the English language' -- Pam Houston, ...
In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on...
Everything Inside: Stories (Vintage C...
Edwidge DanticatAUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THENATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATURE One of the Best Books of the Year NPR, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, St. Louis Po...
Song for the Unraveling of the World
Brian EvensonA newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room...
"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom—what we thought we knew about life and love and family—needs reparation. This is fiction as excavation, peeling away the machinery of people and ...
Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Sho...
Susan GabrielThis delightful collection of short stories from acclaimed writer, Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 and Amazon #1 bestseller), is rich in humor, as well as mystery and meaning. Whether...
Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it was first published, heralding Mary Gaitskill's arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing tale...
From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England’s greatest living novelists, comes a collection of short stories that showcase her subversive wit, gentle humor, and insight into the hum...
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Nadine GordimerAlways exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless insight and deep compassion, Nadine Gordimer has produced another masterpiece of short fiction. From a former anti-apartheid activi...
Zane Grey - Tales of Fishes: "The Sun...
Zane GreyPearl Zane Grey was born January 31st, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing, all of which would stimulate his later success. Grey was an avid reader of adventure st...
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, USA TodayNational BestsellerA small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate a...
From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, co...
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are "riveting in precision" (The Atlantic) and "scintillating ...
Barbara the Slut and Other People
Lauren HolmesNamed a Best Book of 2015 by NPR, Bustle, Gawker, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Pure Wow, and Publisher's Weekly"Holmes trains a precise lens on the millennial generation's mixed bag of manners, mores, and machinations… In [these] bea...
The sixteen short stories featured in Skip Horack's prize-winning debut collection paint a richly textured vision of the American South. Set in the Gulf Coast over the course of a year torn halfway by the arrival of Hurricane Katrina,...
Dislocations: Stories (Norton Paperba...
Janette Turner HospitalFrom the author of the highly praised novel Oyster, Dislocations is filled with "sensuous, speculative fictions about the experience of dislocation. . . . Stories develop like poems or meditations." (New York Times Book Revi...
At the End of the Century: The Storie...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala"To read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to regard the human heart through a magnifying glass." ―Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning auth...
A singular debut that "marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent" (Kevin Barry)Daisy Johnson's Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere...