Short Stories (single author)
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A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
$19.99 Add 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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A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories
$29.99 Add 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
$16.95 Add 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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Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories
$19.00 Add 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
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299655
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
$30.00 Add 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
$17.99 Add 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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The Insufferable Gaucho
$16.00 Add 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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Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
$22.95 Read 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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Popol Vuh
$13.00 Add 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
$25.95 Add 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
$24.95 Add 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
$16.95 Read 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
$17.99 Read 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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Where the Candles Are Kept
$16.00 Read moreThe 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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The Keeper of the Ornaments
$16.00 Read moreCole 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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Weird Tales of the Great Lakes
$11.99 Add 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
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Friend of My Youth: Stories
$16.00 Read moreA “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Munro, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0679729577
- Language: English
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The Fragile Blue Dot: Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere
$19.95 Add to cartClimate change, food insecurity, carbon footprints, environmental justice, global warming-questions of staggering consequence that inflame emotions, generate fierce debate, and resist quick fixes and
- Author: West, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1951289080
- Language: English
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Mouth: Stories
$26.00 Read more“Sometimes surreal, sometimes horrifying, always startling . . . Mouth introduces readers to Puloma Ghosh’s unmatched ability to probe the visceral depths of female pain, desire, and grief.” –Alice M… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Puloma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602472
- Language: English
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This Kind of Man
$18.95 Add to cartIconoclastic, deftly crafted, original, memorable and thought-provoking, each one of the short stories comprising “This Kind of Man” is raised by author Sean Murphy to an impressive level of literary
- Author: Murphy, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1963115155
- Language: English
