Short Stories (single author)
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By: Ogawa, Yoko
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan’s bestselling and most celebrated authors.
From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherho- Author: Ogawa, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250375967
- Language: English
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By: Reyes Jr, Ruben
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award – Finalist for The Story Prize – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction – Finalist for the California Book Award – Longlisted for the Carnegie Med
- Author: Reyes Jr, Ruben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063336308
- Language: English
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By: Dixon, Nathan
Radical Red
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartAs income inequality soars, as industries become further mechanized, as the populace cries out for some semblance of a social safety net and corporations complain of too much regulation, we are long o
- Author: Dixon, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1960145495
- Language: English
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By: George, Jen
The Babysitter at Rest
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cart“I’m so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They’re so funny and weird and true.” –Sheila Heti
Five stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the- Author: George, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0997366621
- Language: English
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By: Guiasu, Radu
A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartGrowing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don’t seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in … [more below]
- Author: Guiasu, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 103919494X
- Language: English
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By: Lethem, Jonathan
A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartA definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form
“Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Saling
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063388847
- Language: English
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Absolution: Stories
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cart“We’re going to die, aren’t we?”
“Yes.”
Two brothers face challenges at sea. A man with special blood approaches his foreboding doom. In a dystopian future, Scouts reflect on the giant leap of mankind.
- Author: Maynard, Timothy Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893151060
- Language: English
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By: Krow, Leyna
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cart“These gripping, magical tales span time travel, portals, menacing butterflies, and more. A can’t-miss meditation on families and survival.”
“A gorgeous book that also serves as a series of
—People- Author: Krow, Leyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299655
- Language: English
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By: Bowen, Elizabeth
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartWidely known for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day, The House in Paris, and The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century’s writers
- Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1400096561
- Language: English
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North of Ordinary
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller
“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”
So begins North of Ordinary,
- Author: Gardiner, John Rolfe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 195427632X
- Language: English
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By: Bolaño, Roberto
The Insufferable Gaucho
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Excellent . . . ‘The Insufferable Gaucho’ is one of Bola?o’s most powerful fictions.” —The New York Times Book Review
An aging Buenos Aires judge retires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle- Author: Bolaño, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 125089820X
- Language: English
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By: Shelby, Ashley
Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
$22.95HardcoverRead moreEclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions from a familiar world hauntingly transformed
Climate disaster-induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently di
- Author: Shelby, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917077
- Language: English
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By: Recions, Adrian
Popol Vuh
$13.00PaperbackAdd to cartCon la gracia y la sabiduria de las fabulas clasicas, el Popol Vuh es el mas precioso legado, mitico y teogonico, de la antiguedad americana. La primera parte relata el origen del mundo y la creacion … [more below]
- Author: Recions, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 03 1960
- ISBN10: 9681603273
- Language: Spanish
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Japa and Other Stories
$25.95PaperbackAdd to cartThese eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor them
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Nwachukwu, Iheoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367273
- Language: English
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The Waterman: Stories
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartClayton Royster is a waterman living in the fictional coastal town of Sand Point, Virginia. Since childhood in the 1940s, he’s plied the local waters, crabbing in the estuaries, and fishing the open w
- Author: Schanbacher, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329421
- Language: English
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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
$16.95PaperbackRead moreMadness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer
A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Akutagawa, Ryonosuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330292
- Language: English
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Peacocks of Instagram: Stories
$17.99PaperbackRead moreFinalist, 2024 Giller Prize
Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.
An underappre
- Author: Rajagopalan, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012403
- Language: English
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By: Eggers, Dave
Where the Candles Are Kept
$16.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe fifth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers’s The Forgetters series.
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1963270037
- Language: English
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By: Eggers, Dave
The Keeper of the Ornaments
$16.00HardcoverAdd to cartCole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is extr
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1963270002
- Language: English
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By: Julius, Aleco
Weird Tales of the Great Lakes
$11.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn archeology student has an aquatic encounter with an ancient deity. One woman’s shipwrecked fate is mysteriously avenged. Friends on a fishing trip catch something far stranger than they could have
- Author: Julius, Aleco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218416966
- Language: English

















