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Yesterday’s Weather

“Arresting . . . Enright composes stories that tend to be straightforward, featuring working-class women with recognizable difficulties: infidelity, boredom, motherhood . . . the change of life or the…

Word Virus

“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…

The Wonder Garden

A keen and brilliant observer of the strangeness that is American suburbia. Acampora joins the ranks of writers like John Cheever and Tom Perrotta…

Woodcuts of Women

‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and…

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

“Harrison is unfailingly entertaining but he is much more—a haunting, gifted writer . . . a consummate storyteller—truly one of those writers whose books…

Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work

“One quality that makes these stories feel unmistakably new is Brown’s . . . seamless, oddly cinematic shifts among points of view. . ….

Wicked Women

“A bristling new collection of stories . . . Weldon has become one of the most cunning moral satirists of our time.” –The New…

White Man’s Problems

“Life undermines the pursuit of success and status in these rich, bewildering stories’a finely wrought and mordantly funny take on a modern predicament by…

Walk the Blue Fields

“The best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it’s easy to imagine readers savoring them many years…