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The Miniature Wife and Other Stories

Home is where the potentially lethal creature is.

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Site of the week: storytelling for the Internet age with Cowbird

Where the personal gets universal.

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Hush Hush

Winners, losers, and those infinitely heavy-hearted misfits.

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When It Happens To You

A spelunking expedition of a deteriorating relationship.

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Summer Reading List: Short Stories for a Long Summer

Whether you're reading on the beach or in the comfort… >>

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Harper's free eBook includes novelists and porn stars

Porn stars and literature

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Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Absurd in a good way.

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Ray Bradbury has died

It's been a pleasure to burn with you, sir.

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Stay Awake

Do not fall asleep.

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Ray Bradbury short stories headed to theaters

MGM picks up ghoulish collection From the Dust Returned.

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New app brings short stories to mobile devices

Storyville co-founder discusses its potential.

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Sweet Talk

The return of a classic.

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How They Were Found

Short stories from Michigan’s indie darling.

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The return of Junot Diaz

Love hurts, apparently.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

A solid yet disappointing collection.

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Critical Questions: Emma Straub

Brooklyn-based writer opens up.

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The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

Short shorts born of the worldwide web.

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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

DeLillo’s first short story collection.

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Other People We Married

Brooklyn funny girl lightens the darkness.

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls

How to be a woman eight different ways.

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The Spot

Fascinating but spotty.

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If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

A thoughtful short story debut.

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Pulse

Strong, but uneven.

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Gryphon

Baxter brings the mythic to the Midwest with Gryphon.

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Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves

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

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Long, Last Happy

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

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While the Women Are Sleeping

A minor work from a major writer.

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By Nightfall

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

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The Road

A significant addition to an important literary corpus.

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The Safety of Objects

Homes stuns with bleak visions of American life.

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The Thing Around Your Neck

Harsh wisdom in well-balanced prose.

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Like You’d Understand, Anyway

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

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Palo Alto

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

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Stories in the Worst Way

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

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Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

Not quite attuned to the true voices of Generation Y.

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Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

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

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Vida

Vida may be too cool for its own good.

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Schemers and dreamers populate this tableau of feudal Pakistan.

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

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

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The Street of Crocodiles

An hallucinatory tableau of life in Drogobych, Poland.

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Joyce Carol Oates

A tirelessly prolific American writer.

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Jesus’ Son

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

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Fast Lanes

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

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What He's Poised to Do

Snail mail makes a comeback in these short stories.

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Bonnie Jo Campbell

An American original.

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American Salvage

Seeks redemption in despair.

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What Was Mine

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

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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

A posthumous gem.

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

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

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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant

Davis is up to her old metafictional tricks again.

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Tao Lin

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

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Alice Munro

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

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J. D. Salinger

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

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ZZ Packer

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

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Ann Beattie

From minimalism to experimental prose over several decades.

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Gordon Lish

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

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Roald Dahl

Adored British storyteller of the highest caliber.

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Reasons to Live

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

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Raymond Carver

A master of economical word usage.

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Miranda July

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

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Don DeLillo

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