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New app brings short stories to mobile devices

By Phil Guie

Storyville co-founder discusses its potential.

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Books Review

Sweet Talk

Stephanie Vaughn

The return of a classic.

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How They Were Found

Matt Bell

Short stories from Michigan’s indie darling.

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Books News

The return of Junot Diaz

By Damian Van Denburgh

Love hurts, apparently.

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Books Review

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Nathan Englander

A solid yet disappointing collection.

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Books Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Emma Straub

By Tracy O’Neill

Brooklyn-based writer opens up.

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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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Books Review

Other People We Married

Emma Straub

Brooklyn funny girl lightens the darkness.

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls

Elissa Schappell

How to be a woman eight different ways.

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The Spot

David Means

Fascinating but spotty.

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Robin Black

A thoughtful short story debut.

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Pulse

Julian Barnes

Strong, but uneven.

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Gryphon

Charles Baxter

Baxter brings the mythic to the Midwest with Gryphon.

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Books List

Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves

By Tracy O’Neill

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

Books Review

Long, Last Happy

Barry Hannah

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

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While the Women Are Sleeping

Javier Marías

A minor work from a major writer.

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Books Review

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham

A middle-aged man discovers the beastly truths of beauty when… >>

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The Road

Vasily Grossman

A significant addition to an important literary corpus.

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The Safety of Objects

A. M. Homes

Homes stuns with bleak visions of American life.

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The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Harsh wisdom in well-balanced prose.

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Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Jim Shepard

Legendary Greeks and young American geeks come alive under the… >>

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Palo Alto

James Franco

Not as bad as you’d think… sorry, schadenfreuders.

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Stories in the Worst Way

Gary Lutz

A wordsmith cobbles together awe-inspiring sentences but sometimes falls short… >>

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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

Justin Taylor

Not quite attuned to the true voices of Generation Y.

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Books List

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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Vida

Patricia Engel

Vida may be too cool for its own good.

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Schemers and dreamers populate this tableau of feudal Pakistan.

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One More Story: Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode

Ingo Schulze

Germany’s literary golden boy makes a moral call to arms… >>

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The Street of Crocodiles

Bruno Schulz

An hallucinatory tableau of life in Drogobych, Poland.

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Joyce Carol Oates

By Tracy O’Neill

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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Books Review

Jesus’ Son

Denis Johnson

Mind-altering drugs take center stage in this boozy collection of… >>

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Fast Lanes

Jayne Anne Phillips

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

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What He's Poised to Do

Ben Greenman

Snail mail makes a comeback in these short stories.

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Bonnie Jo Campbell

By Damian Van Denburgh

An American original.

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American Salvage

Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage seeks redemption in despair.

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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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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

Maile Meloy

A sad little world in which the only requirements for… >>

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Lydia Davis

Davis is up to her old metafictional tricks again.

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Tao Lin

By Tracy O’Neill

Lin continues to dissect and exploit the 21st century in… >>

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Alice Munro

By Damian Van Denburgh

Munro’s short stories contain whole lives within their frames.

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J. D. Salinger

By Eric Schneider

Salinger wrote the most influential coming-of-age novel in American literature,… >>

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ZZ Packer

By Tracy O’Neill

Vibrant, energetic, and tough, Packer's prose crams each of her… >>

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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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Roald Dahl

By Eric Schneider

Adored British storyteller of the highest caliber.

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Reasons to Live

Amy Hempel

With grace and wit, Hempel illuminates the struggles and regrets… >>

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Raymond Carver

By Tracy O’Neill

A master of economical word usage.

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Miranda July

By Tracy O’Neill

One of the preeminent indie artists of the new millennium.… >>

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Don DeLillo

By Tracy O’Neill

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