Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)
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…
The Wonder Garden
by Lauren AcamporaA 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
by Dagoberto Gilb‘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
by Jim Harrison“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
by Jason Brown“One quality that makes these stories feel unmistakably new is Brown’s . . . seamless, oddly cinematic shifts among points of view. . ….
Wicked Women
by Fay Weldon“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
by Kevin Morris“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
by Claire Keegan“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…
Vida
by Patricia Engel“Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent, Patricia Engel writes with an almost fable-like intensity. . . . Here, friends, is the debut I have been…
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
by Will Self“Self’s satires combine humanity with ingenuity, manifesting a Swiftian obsession with scale, a Kafkaesque fixation with blind alleys and the narrative legerdemain of Jorge…
