Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)

Elsewhere, Home
by Leila AboulelaThe first new collection of stories from the New York Times Notable author since winning the Caine Prize, Elsewhere, Home offers a rich tableau…

Pure Hollywood
by Christine Schutt“Don’t be fooled by its size. This book is a masterwork that hits way harder than its weight class, and achieves what great fiction…

Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense
by Joyce Carol OatesFrom a master “mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds” (New York Times Book Review), this gorgeously eerie story collection…

The Next New World
by Bob Shacochis“If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal

Night Beast
by Ruth JoffreA stunning debut collection by an award-winning young writer, Night Beast follows haunted characters through real, surreal, and speculative landscapes to examine the darker…

Rock Springs
by Richard Ford“Beautifully imagined and crafted stories, by turns heartrending and wickedly funny, and just plain wicked. Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable…

Young Skins
by Colin BarrettFrom a major new talent in international fiction, whom Colm Tóibín has hailed as “exciting and stylistically adventurous,” comes a propulsive, urgent portrait of…

Yesterday’s Weather
by Anne Enright“Arresting . . . Enright composes stories that tend to be straightforward, featuring working-class women with recognizable difficulties: infidelity, boredom, motherhood . . ….

Word Virus
by William S. Burroughs“Word Virus: The Williams S. Burroughs Reader finally brings the author’s actual writing back to the forefront. In their selections, editors James Grauerholz and…