Short stories
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Scorch Atlas: A Belated Primer
$14.95 Add to cartIn this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children d… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Blake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0977199282
- Language: English
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Nightfall and Other Dangers
$15.95 Add to cartA flyboy volunteers for a suicide mission with a copilot from beyond the stars. A painter’s body is possessed by a malevolent force to render a likeness of its hellish beloved. Hundreds of adults myst… [more below]
- Author: Mohr, Jacob Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1685100848
- Language: English
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Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories
$28.95 Add to cartPlatinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi’en, China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights act… [more below]
- Series: Sinotheory
- Author: Cui, Zi’en
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030062
- Language: English
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
$21.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Colm Tb匤
In fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf,
- Series: Art of the Story
- Author: Mansfield, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0062490494
- Language: English
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Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories
$18.00 Read moreA ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, “a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Byatt, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466853
- Language: English
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Some of Them Will Carry Me
$18.00 Read more“This is a book of wonders, full of intricate beauty, and Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent.” –Katie Kitamura
Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a fiercely original collection of stories ranging i- Author: Scodellaro, Giada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1948980150
- Language: English
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Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartWith Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction… [more below]
- Author: Rosson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1946154520
- Language: English
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Training School for Negro Girls
$17.95 Add to cartWhen you’re black and female in America, society’s rules were never meant to make you safe or free. In this flawlessly executed work that] reinvigorates the short fiction genre, Camille Acker’s relat
- Author: Acker, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932377
- Language: English
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The Measure of Sorrow: Stories
$17.95 Read moreShirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a b… [more below]
- Author: Ashley-Smith, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1946154776
- Language: English
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The Lost Archive
$17.95 Add to cartThe characters-young and old, queer and straight, contemporary and historical-who inhabit Lynn C. Miller’s stories often find themselves in defining moments and crisis situations. As they search throu… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Lynn C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0299342247
- Language: English
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South of No North
$19.99 Add to cartSouth of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31, 2002
- ISBN10: 0876851898
- Language: English
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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$25.00 Add to cartToday F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America’s most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 775
- Publish Date: September 20 1995
- ISBN10: 068480445X
- Language: English
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Ficciones: Introduction by John Sturrock
$25.00 Read moreJorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form–in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 25 1993
- ISBN10: 0679422994
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Read moreThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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Music for Chameleons
$17.00 Add to cartIn these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction.
“An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745661
- Language: English
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
$30.00 Add to cartAn essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction–now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Gro… [more below]
- Series: HBJ Modern Classic
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0151365040
- Language: English
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Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories
$21.99 Add to cartAvailable in one volume, all the short stories by legendary Golden Age mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers, “one of the greatest mystery-story writers of the [twentieth] century.” (Los Angeles Times)
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- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0062275496
- Language: English
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The Nose and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cartNikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius come
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190697
- Language: English
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Mouthful of Birds: Stories
$17.00 Add to cart“Superb” — Vogue
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“What makes Schweblin so startling as a writer, however, what makes her rare and important, is that she is impelled not by mere talent or ambition but by vision.” — New York Times- Author: Schweblin, Samanta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399184635
- Language: English
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Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories
$19.95 Read moreThis collection of essays and stories by Lambda Award-winning novelist and UCLA scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba focuses on issues of identity, art and language.
- Author: De Alba, Alicia Gaspar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1558859578
- Language: English
