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  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ISBN: 0547485859
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • 100 Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: B00U0B4PCI
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    "This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community ChurchThis treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Co... [Read More]

  • Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ISBN: 0544582942
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also lo... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and t... [Read More]

  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0199744394
    • ISBN: 0199744394
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be ... [Read More]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949099
    • ISBN: 0544949099
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,... [Read More]

  • Sticky Fingers: 12 Deliciously Twisted Short Stories (Sticky Fingers Collection Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01F6FAQZC
    • Manufacturer: Fire Finch Press

    Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 12 short stories by JT Lawrence include:ESCAPEA suicidal baby knows he was born into the wrong life. He has to get creative to correct the mistake, much to his mother's horror.THE ITCHAn intense, uncontrollable, unexplainable itch lands the protagonist in a mental ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ISBN: 1328484246
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail... [Read More]

  • Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)

    • ASIN: 0374523541
    • ISBN: 0374523541
    • Brand: Hill and Wang
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late ninetee... [Read More]

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 1416532277
    • ISBN: 9781416532279
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, ... [Read More]

  • The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0679745130
    • ISBN: 0679745130
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As select... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547939418
    • ISBN: 0547939418
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544582896
    • ISBN: 0544582896
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, ca... [Read More]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949080
    • ISBN: 0544949080
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    "Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547055323
    • ISBN: 9780547055329
    • Brand: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of ... [Read More]

  • American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

    • ASIN: 0440204232
    • ISBN: 0440204232
    • Brand: 2049145481
    • Manufacturer: Dell

    This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mir... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547554834
    • ISBN: 0547554834
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in maki... [Read More]

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544526759
    • ISBN: 9780544526754
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Holly... [Read More]

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544527186
    • ISBN: 0544527186
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

     “What you’ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and u... [Read More]

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