 | Rise: Stories (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction)
Publication Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction "Binder has gone so deeply, and with such mystical brilliance and loyalty, into her own world that she has brought mine to me in high relief. She both casts a spell and breaks it. To experience Rise is to experience wonder."--Laura Kasischke "In one of these amazing stories a character says to her husband, 'Why are you smiling? You're scaring me.' That's how I feel about Rise. There is a yearning so deep in each story, something beautiful and urgent, that the book glows. L. Annette Binder arrives wi...
 |  | The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
Release Date: May 31, 2011NATIONAL BESTSELLERNow with an additional storyEvery now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman kicks up her heels and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do if you could shed the “shoulds” and do, say—and eat—whatever you really desired? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life—or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find ...
|  | Looking for Jake: Stories
Release Date: August 30, 2005What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales–one set in Miéville’s signature fantasy world of New Crobuzon. Among the fourteen superb fictions are“Jack”–Following the events of his acclaimed novel Perdido ...
|  | Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories
Publication Date: October 1, 198513th Printing, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charles Harry Whedbee. Originally sold for $12.95. Jacket illustration by Debra L. Hampton. Pictorial on the jacket is a lighthouse John F. Blair, publisher, Winston Salem, NC. Illustrations by Mara H. Bagnal. Designed by Debra Long Hampton. Printed in the USA. Total 133 pages. Contains black and white illustrations. The pages are clean and without markings or tears. The spine is tight and straight. The book is almost like new, just the jacket has normal shelfwear. "Once again, the North Carolina Coast is the b...
|  | The Saddlebag: A Fable for Doubters and Seekers (Bluestreak)
Release Date: September 22, 2001A beautifully told, transcendent tale of truth, salvation, and the power of desire. ...
| ![Tales From A Jewish Grandmother: A Book Of "Bubbe Meises"](https://imageproxy.pixnet.cc/imgproxy?url=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OBNsTX3-L._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg&width=150 "Tales From A Jewish Grandmother: A Book Of "Bubbe Meises"") | Tales From A Jewish Grandmother: A Book Of "Bubbe Meises"
Publication Date: July 31, 2012What child would not be delighted by the story of bewildering matzoballs, miraculous latkes, unusual guests to a Bar Mitzvah, and a dog with a mysterious and exciting history? These are the contents of Cynthia Goren's "Tales from a Jewish Grandmother" In this collection, two stories for the very young and two for the older child subtly but convincingly stress the importance of respect and patience both for each other and for all of nature. The whimsy of the earlier stories will bring giggles to the younger set; the more serious and nuanced later stories will pr...
|  | Mothers and Sons: Stories
Release Date: January 1, 2008Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Tóibín writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, by the stronghold of the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they ever chose at all. A man buries his mother and converts his grief to desire in one night. A famous singer captivates an au...
|  | Blood and Soap: Stories
Release Date: May 4, 2004| ISBN-10: 1583226427 | ISBN-13: 978-1583226421Blood and Soap is a breakthrough collection of modern-day fables from a wildly inventive American writer whose fiction has been called "terse and edgy" (Booklist) and "vividly imagined" (Kirkus Reviews). Dinh's gift is for constructing, in the manner of Italo Calvino, simple narratives that quickly frame larger questions; with a poet's timing, the author builds his stories to the one or few climactic sentences that brand them with unforgettable meaning. In one tale, a Vietnamese boy's self-guided, haphazard study of ...
|  | The Shell Collector: Stories
Release Date: January 4, 2011The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties—metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts—conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to ...
|  | The Rider on the White Horse
Publication Date: June 16, 2009The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy. It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mys...
|  | Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
Release Date: October 1, 2010For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time. With wit and charm, Bailey White writes about an almost-gone little town where a spoon player is a guardian angel, an old woman fears that John James Audubon is living in her attic, and a homely governess wins a baby bull in a raffle and loses her heart. It's the kind of place where H...
|  | Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories
Release Date: January 27, 2009Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. "L. De Bard and Aliette" recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; "Lucky Chow Fun" returns to Templeton, the setting of Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happe...
|  | Bedtime Stories for Children You Hate
Publication Date: June 7, 2011Hate cute stories? Hate happy endings? Hate children? Not quite right in the head? If so, this deliciously twisted storybook is dedicated just to you. ...
|  | Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: August 12, 2008| Series: Vintage Contemporaries Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade.Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval...
|  | Arresting God in Kathmandu
Publication Date: August 2, 2001From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Here are husbands and wives bound together by arranged marriages but sometimes driven elsewhere by an intense desire for connection and transcendence. In a city where gods are omnipresent, where privacy is elusive and family defines ...
|  | The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories
Publication Date: February 27, 1997First published in 1987, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories was hailed as "a world-class anthology" in The Washington Post Book World and as "a banquet of stories...to be savored and enjoyed over and over again" in The Philadelphia Inquirer.Now, in The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories, Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver have compiled an updated anthology that surpasses the original in historical and regional balance while providing fiction lovers with another superb collection of works in a handy paperback format. Featuring forty-five sto...
|  | Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method
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|  | Madness of the Day
Publication Date: January 6, 1981Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is "a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely 'to have a vision' in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to...
|  | Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
Publication Date: September 1, 2002From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world ...
|  | American Short Stories since 1945
Publication Date: August 23, 2001| ISBN-10: 0195131320 | ISBN-13: 978-0195131321Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since World War II--who we are, where we have been, and where we might be going. Striving to make this anthology representative of all the literary voices of the period, editor John G. Parks includes work from...
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