Short stories
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Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
$21.95 Add to cart“Nothing short of a wonder-book.”–New York Times Book Review
The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature—a sharp, rich exploration of what it means to p
- Series: Harvest American Writing
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0156505150
- Language: English
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Shadow Show
$15.99 Add to cart“Ray Bradbury is without a doubt, one of this, or any century’s greatest and most imaginative writers. Shadow Show, a book of truly great stories, is the perfect tribute to America’s master storytelle
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062122681
- Language: English
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Ugly Man: Stories
$15.99 Add to cart” A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.” —
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0061715441
- Language: English
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The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories
$29.99 Add to cartA daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).
Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny wo
- Author: Gelman, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0063315971
- Language: English
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If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home
$15.95 Add to cartIf I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s gripping and energetic debut, tells the stories of children and young people navigating a world not made for them, where the presence of death and v… [more below]
- Author: Hsu, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1636280536
- Language: English
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To the Stars and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the
- Author: Fusso, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200056
- Language: English
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Here Be Icebergs
$15.95 Read moreThe weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.
The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families m
- Author: Adaui, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867196
- Language: English
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American Christmas Stories
$29.95 Read more** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book **
Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast i- Author: Willis, Connie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 467
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537067
- Language: English
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021: A Mystery Collection
$16.99 Add to cartSteph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her a… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Cha, Steph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358525691
- Language: English
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Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5
$19.95 Add to cartTesting the boundaries of pleasure and pain . . . To be so full of longing you ache for release . . . Coming to climax without a single touch.
The fifth volume of the Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year- Series: Best Lesbian Erotica #5
- Author: Sexsmith, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1627783083
- Language: English
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Sleepovers: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartOne of the New Yorker’s “What We’re Reading This Summer” * A Millions Most Anticipated Book (June) * A Goop15 May 2020 Feature * One of Apartment Therapy’s “7 Must-Read Books Everyone Will Be Talking
- Author: Phillips, Ashleigh Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1938235665
- Language: English
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The Complete Crime Stories
$28.99 Add to cartSeventeen hardboiled crime stories from the “poet of the tabloid murder” and author of Double Indemnity (Edmund Wilson).
They call him Lucky–but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-- Author: Cain, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1504011325
- Language: English
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The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
$24.99 Add to cartThis “first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales” (Locus Magazine) features an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most bel- Author: Parisien, Dominik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 148145613X
- Language: English
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Off the Record
$19.95 Add to cartEditor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how the
- Author: Metcalf, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965452
- Language: English
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It Takes Two: Couples Erotica
$18.95 Add to cartIt takes two to do more than just tango in Bussel’s sizzling new collection of short stories . . .
In It Takes Two, couples take their passion in new directions, giving free reign to their filthiest s- Author: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1627783288
- Language: English
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Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense
$15.99 Add to cartFifteen chilling tales of gothic horror and suspense.
Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the
- Author: Coates, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0992594952
- 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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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
