Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)
Pricksongs & Descants
by Robert Coover“[Robert Coover is] a marvelous magician . . . a maker of miracles, a comic, a sexual tease. . . . The fictions in…
A Primitive Heart
by David Rabe“As the characters play hide-and-seek with themselves, we’re forced to come out of hiding to shift our own positions and philosophy. Rabe has a way of implicating the reader–of creating a near-claustrophobic bond with his restless characters, writing so convincingly that the subtext becomes almost palpable, accruing darkly, like a…
Personal Velocity
by Rebecca Miller‘rebecca Miller’s debut story collection is a series of eye-opening portraits of women who are either struggling to attain self-knowledge or who are hopelessly…
Pack of Cards
by Penelope Lively“One of Britain’s most imaginative and important contemporary writers.” –Library Journal…
October, Eight O’Clock
by Norman Manea“The reader becomes absorbed at once. The background is dreamlike but terribly familiar. . . . Manea’s prose treads the edge of the poetry…
My Life in Heavy Metal
by Steve Almond“Almond’s eye for modern types is impeccably, almost academically, sharp, and yet these stories, slight as they sometimes are, never come across as schoolwork.”…
Moon Deluxe
by Frederick Barthelme“Moon Deluxe is engaging, observant and at times downright whack-in-the-solar-plexus mean. It’s impossible to conceive of any writer doing what he does any better…
The Middleman and Other Stories
by Bharati Mukherjee“Bharati Mukherjee, in this astonishing second book of short stories, zeroes in on uneasy terrain that no one has looked at with quite so…
The Magic of Blood
by Dagoberto Gilb“In stories both harsh and lovely, hopeful and heartbreaking, of men on the fringes of America, Dagoberto Gilb reveals a powerful new literary voice.”…
Love Without
by Jerry Stahl“Stahl has earned the blurbs he’s picked up along the way from James Ellroy, Hubert Selby Jr., and Jim Carroll, and has the right…
