Short Stories (single author)
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Fancies and Goodnights
$24.95 Read moreJohn Collier’s edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Collier, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: May 31 2003
- ISBN10: 1590170512
- Language: English
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African Stories
$38.99 Add to cartLong considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories–a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer–is now back in print. This beautiful collect… [more below]
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476767157
- Language: English
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Places Like These: Stories
$20.00 Read moreA widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assa
- Author: Carter, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1771668059
- Language: English
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Patterns of Orbit: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartChloe N Clark’s Patterns of Orbit spans genres, perspectives, and styles to articulate contemporary uncertainties in a rapidly changing world. Steadily gazing into and across the uncanny valley, Clark
- Author: Clark Chloe N
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1936097478
- Language: English
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Electrodomésticos: Stories
$18.95 Read moreInspired, in part, by Moira McCavana’s own family history in Bilbao, these inventive short stories inhabit the Spanish Basque Country in the fifty years following the Spanish Civil War.
“In Guernica, … [more below]
- Author: McCavana, Moira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1956046275
- Language: English
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Where Are Your People From?: A Novel in Stories
$24.95 Add to cartMeet Giacomo Agostini, retired coal miner and first-generation American, a son of foreigners, a Depression kid who never got over it, the second-oldest living member of the St. Theresa’s Knights of Co
- Author: De Monte, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986966366
- Language: English
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Twin Lakes Vortex
$15.00 Add to cartThese stories are fictional, of course, but along the way are events, or incidents that happen to each of us on a daily basis. Books can take us to the moon and stars. Drawing inspiration from his rea
- Author: Morris, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885275316
- Language: English
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The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$13.95 Add to cartPublished in 1922, The Garden Party and Other Stories is Katherine Mansfield’s third and most acclaimed collection of short stories. In addition to the title piece, it includes fourteen other masterfu… [more below]
- Author: Mansfield, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891294
- Language: English
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Fragments of Time
$14.99 Add to cartFragments of courage.
Fragments of upheaval.
Dividing the human experience into diverse narratives-science fiction, fantasy, romance, nature study, adventure-author J.W. Capek presents short stories o
- Author: Capek, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 159092858X
- Language: English
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Tales of the Art World: And Other Stories
$29.33 Add to cartPhilip Hook returns to fiction in this collection of short stories. Many are set in the art world, of which the author has deep inside knowledge. Others are about cricket, football, war, espionage and
- Author: Hook, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1912914565
- Language: English
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Donde Vuela El Camaleón / Where the Chameleon Flies
$19.95 Read moreUna joya literaria in?dita en Espa?a, por una de las escritoras m?s reconocidas de la literatura en espa?ol, ganadora de los premios Cervantes, FIL Guadalajara y Reina Sof?a
«Es al mismo tiempo … [more below]- Author: Vitale, Ida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 8426416926
- Language: Spanish
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This Modern Man is Beat: A Novel in Stories
$14.99 Add to cartThis Modern Man is Beat is a novel in stories chronicling the life and times of Habib bin Habib Al Fulan – born in El Salvador, of Palestinian stock, and eventually ending up in Miami. In each story,
- Author: Zablah, Fawzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955585032
- Language: English
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The Jungle Around Us: Stories
$21.95 Add to cart“You’ll see how beautiful it is in the morning–jungle all around us,” says one of the characters in Anne Raeff’s story collection, referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also provide
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #17
- Author: Raeff, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354740
- Language: English
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Bad Kansas: Stories
$26.95 Add to cartThe eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country’s most flown-over state and the quirky characters that call it home. In this darkly humorous colle
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #89
- Author: Mandelbaum, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351288
- Language: English
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Marguerite Duras: Writing
$16.95 Read moreWriting, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0816677530
- Language: English
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Battles in the Desert and Other Stories
$14.95 Add to cartPacheco, Battles in the Desert. Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.
- Author: Pacheco, Jose Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0811210200
- Language: English
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The Guy Not Taken: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartJennifer Weiner’s talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.
We meet- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0743298055
- Language: English
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False Bingo: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartCombines the otherworldliness of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation,” the menacing irony of Shirley Jackson and the cold feminist fury of Margaret Atwood —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Fall Read- Author: Jemc, Jac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538352
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
$36.99 Add to cartDescribed by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urba
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531846
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories
$28.99 Add to cartLeonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, fro
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531293
- Language: English
