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The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1
hitRECordShort shorts born of the worldwide web.
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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Don DeLilloDeLillo’s first short story collection.
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Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Elissa SchappellHow to be a woman eight different ways.
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I Curse the River of Time
Per PettersonMom’s dying, the wife is leaving, but memories stay put.
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Swamplandia!
Karen RussellGators and ghosts take center stage in Russell’s Floridian family… >>
Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves
By Tracy O’NeillA pedophile with a redundant name preys on a young… >>
An American Dream
Norman MailerMailer lets the crazy out in this man-kills-wife psychodrama.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel BarberyA concierge and a poor little rich girl wax poetic… >>
Long, Last Happy
Barry HannahA retrospective of exquisitely crafted stories from the one and… >>
Everything Matters!
Ron Currie Jr.Currie Jr. makes apocalypse as funny and life-affirming as it… >>
Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Jim ShepardLegendary Greeks and young American geeks come alive under the… >>
Stories in the Worst Way
Gary LutzA wordsmith cobbles together awe-inspiring sentences but sometimes falls short… >>
The Quick and the Dead
Joy WilliamsCharmingly morbid young girls’ lives tangle strangely following the deaths… >>
Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers
By Tracy O’NeillBefore these writers became literary rockstars, they nine-to-fived in hospitals,… >>
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
George SaundersA country smaller than a New York City apartment is… >>
One More Story: Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode
Ingo SchulzeGermany’s literary golden boy makes a moral call to arms… >>
Holding Still for As Long As Possible
Zoe WhittallLovers are swapped like baseball cards in this novel about… >>
How the Dead Dream
Lydia MilletA conscientious rich guy isn’t an oxymoron in this Lydia… >>
Forest Gate
Peter AkintiA brutal depiction of the devastation facing contemporary London’s black… >>
Joshua Ferris
By Tracy O’NeillA straight shooter unafraid of addressing the big bad malaises… >>
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Lydia DavisDavis is up to her old metafictional tricks again.
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Alice Munro
By Damian Van DenburghMunro’s short stories contain whole lives within their frames.
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The Corrections
Jonathan FranzenIn their abundance of meat and potatoes and inalienable rights,… >>
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie MooreAn ambitious cave dive into the depths of postmodern disenfranchisement.
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William S. Burroughs
By Damian Van DenburghBurroughs challenged the machinations of literature itself.
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Ring Lardner
By Tracy O’NeillLardner recreated the very voices of Americans with a keen… >>
ZZ Packer
By Tracy O’NeillVibrant, energetic, and tough, Packer's prose crams each of her… >>
Ann Beattie
By Tracy O’NeillFrom minimalism to experimental prose over several decades.
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Gordon Lish
By Tracy O’NeillPerhaps no man has promoted contemporary minimalist literature as much… >>
Don DeLillo
By Tracy O’NeillWith black humor and spirited outrage, DeLillo remains one of… >>
