Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : John Updike
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195130855
This collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.
Author : Tom Perrotta
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547242107
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618197330
Best-selling author Walter Mosley has selected the year's top fiction from voices well-known and new. Here several authors bring their stories to vivid life for a banner audio edition.
Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1984877828
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328465829
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547485859
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --
Author : Elizabeth Baxter
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Mark Wish
Publisher : Coolest Stories Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1737573911
America's most talented storytellers share their most courageous, compelling, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Praised early on by Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk author Ben Fountain and The Weight of Blood author Laura McHugh, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is a new annual short story anthology whose guiding philosophy is that a collection of interesting "full meal" short stories could, as one @JustCoolStories Twitter follower put it, "make America cool again." Toward this end, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022 features a previously unpublished story by the multi-major-book-award-winning author of Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby; the timeless, previously unpublished short story that led Tina Brown to sign Frances Park's When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin's heartfelt rendering of married life that apparently was too startling for the editors of several university-affiliated literary magazines. And since interesting storytelling―rather than a list of publishing credits―matters most to story-hungry readers, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022 also includes a page-turner about dating in Hollywood written by MFA student Megan Ritchie; Brooklyn native D.Z. Stone's very first published fiction, a hilarious love story that celebrates the power of women; a heartbreaking account of adult siblinghood authored by David Ebenbach―among others in this treasure trove of unputdownable, sharply written, sometimes comic, sometimes frightening, always suspenseful stories loaded with twists and turns. "Coolest American Stories 2022 is a helluva lot of fun. These stories bump and brim with rambunctious energy and show that the American short story is alive and well. Many thanks to Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey for this breath―or let's call it a gale―of fresh literary air." --Ben Fountain, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk "Extraordinarily rich storytelling from fresh, vibrant voices―Coolest American Stories promises to be an annual force." --Laura McHugh, internationally bestselling author of The Weight of Blood and What’s Done in Darkness "Love short stories? This collection is for you. Not yet sure how to feel about short stories? This collection is definitely for you. Whoever you are, wherever you are: read these stories!" --Lori Ostlund, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World
