Short Stories (single author)
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A Life of Adventure and Delight
$15.95 Add to cartHailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky” (The Nat… [more below]
- Author: Sharma, Akhil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355896
- Language: English
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Women! In! Peril!
$17.99 Add to cartFull of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.
In this brash and- Author: Marshall, Jessie Ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732276
- Language: English
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Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club
$19.95 Read moreStonewall Book Award Honor – American Library Association (ALA)
Sometimes the border is a mirror, sometimes it’s an escape, and sometimes it’s just the bridge you cross to go home.
All borders entangle
- Author: S?enz, Benjamin Alire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1935955322
- Language: English
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Some Trick
$16.95 Add to cartFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-… [more below]
- Author: DeWitt, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228932
- Language: English
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All Fires the Fire
$15.95 Add to cartA traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in… [more below]
- Author: Cort?zar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229459
- Language: English
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The Faraway World: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023
From the a- Author: Engel, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982159537
- Language: English
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The Chianti Chronicles: Volume One – Tales of Vietnam Vets
$14.99 Add to cartThe Vietnam War ended decades ago, but its heroes are still here. They are as diverse as America itself, but all of them have key things in common: love for their country, love for their families, and
- Series: The Chianti Chronicles #1
- Author: Cullen, Kevin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988156215
- Language: English
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Hoist House: A Novella & Stories
$24.95 Add to cartCher Bebe manages the dance floor and flogs patrons at a nightclub while his estranged father takes his last breaths back home; a Michigan tornado spotter grieves the end of his marriage; Maggie Panca
- Author: Robertson, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986966359
- Language: English
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The Best of Edward Abbey
$18.95 Add to cartThis is the only major collection of Abbey’s writings compiled by the author himself: in his own words, “to present what I think is both the best and most representative of my writing–so far.” It ser… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1578051215
- Language: English
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Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories
$19.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the n- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Ocampo, Silvina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1590177673
- Language: English
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
$18.99 Add to cart“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, makin
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061549479
- Language: English
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Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread
$19.00 Add to cartChuck Palahniuk, literature’s favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In “Expedition… [more below]
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 034580712X
- Language: English
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartIn this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley “makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant” (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture “t
- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0374515247
- Language: English
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The Philip K. Dick Reader
$19.95 Add to cartIncludes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next
“More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” —The Wa
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0806537949
- Language: English
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
$17.00 Add to cartClassic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that ill… [more below]- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 159463324X
- Language: English
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Stranger Things Happen: Stories
$18.00 Read moreNew edition with 16 interior illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesia
- Author: Link, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1931520003
- Language: English
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Bring Out the Dog: Stories
$19.00 Add to cart“A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.”–George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
“In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psycholo- Author: Mackin, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0812985680
- Language: English
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Sinking Bell: Stories
$16.00 Read more* 2023 SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARD WINNER *
Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life, by an American Book Award winner An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple livin- Author: Louis, Bojan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452030
- Language: English
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41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition
$7.95 Add to cartIncluding his most famous works, such as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room,” this collection of forty-one O. Henry short stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius.
“There ar- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530535
- Language: English
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It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories
$17.00 Add to cartWinner, 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and- Series: Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize
- Author: Reeves, Ramona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0822967103
- Language: English
