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The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

hitRECord

Short shorts born of the worldwide web.

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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

Don DeLillo

DeLillo’s first short story collection.

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Elissa Schappell

How to be a woman eight different ways.

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The Orange Eats Creeps

Grace Krilanovich

Teen vampire hobo junkie looks for her long lost sister.

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Lightning Rods

Helen DeWitt

Sex in the workplace takes on a whole new meaning.

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Bad Marie

Marcy Dermansky

Nice girls finish last.

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Driving on the Rim

Thomas McGuane

The legacy of Camus in small town Montana.

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Beautiful Children

Charles Bock

What happens in Vegas isn’t all glitter.

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Three Delays

Charlie Smith

Love is a drug in this romantic picaresque.

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Mr. Peanut

Adam Ross

A postmodern marital noir.

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Robin Black

A thoughtful short story debut.

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The Illumination

Kevin Brockmeier

It hurts so bright.

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Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Gators and ghosts take center stage in Karen Russell’s Floridian… >>

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Gryphon

Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter brings the mythic to the Midwest with Gryphon.

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Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves

By Tracy O’Neill

A pedophile with a redundant name preys on a young… >>

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An American Dream

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer lets the crazy out in this man-kills-wife psychodrama.

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Fishboy

Mark Richard

The lunacy of the high seas finds a rich storyteller… >>

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Long, Last Happy

Barry Hannah

A retrospective of exquisitely crafted stories from the one and… >>

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Everything Matters!

Ron Currie Jr.

Ron Currie Jr. makes apocalypse as funny and life-affirming as… >>

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Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

By Tracy O’Neill

Before these writers became literary rockstars, they nine-to-fived in hospitals,… >>

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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

George Saunders

A country smaller than a New York City apartment is… >>

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Fast Lanes

Jayne Anne Phillips

Seven short stories ironically attain a sense of cohesion through… >>

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Eat the Document

Dana Spiotta

Idealism on the run.

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How the Dead Dream

Lydia Millet

A conscientious rich guy isn’t an oxymoron in this Lydia… >>

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What Was Mine

Ann Beattie

Love is a four-letter word in these stories of bourgeois… >>

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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

Breece D’J Pancake

A posthumous gem.

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Point Omega

Don DeLillo

Rich with implied and unanswered questions, DeLillo’s latest is a… >>

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Lydia Davis

Davis is up to her old metafictional tricks again with… >>

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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

In their abundance of meat and potatoes and inalienable rights,… >>

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A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

An ambitious cave dive into the depths of postmodern disenfranchisement.

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Ring Lardner

By Tracy O’Neill

Lardner was able to provide screamingly funny and pointed portraits… >>

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Ann Beattie

By Tracy O’Neill

From minimalism to experimental prose over several decades.

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Gordon Lish

By Tracy O’Neill

Perhaps no man has promoted contemporary minimalist literature as much… >>

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Don DeLillo

By Tracy O’Neill

With black humor and spirited outrage, DeLillo remains one of… >>