Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)

Ice Cream

by Helen Dunmore

“Dunmore’s carefully observed stories demonstrate her ear for language and her eye for the telling moment. . . .Dunmore deftly uses narrative turning points…

The House at Belle Fontaine

by Lily Tuck

“Evocative stories of beautiful language and masterful economy . . . Tuck’s unflinching eye to detail and faithful ear for dialogue bring to life…

Home Schooling

by Carol Windley

“[An] elegant collection . . . Windley’s writing is calm and at times hypnotic, and her prose rhythms paint pictures of their own; she…

High Crime Area

by Joyce Carol Oates

A stunning and disturbing collection of stories from the legendary Joyce Carol Oates, High Crime Area shows just how full—and how devoid—of humanity we…

High Lonesome

by Barry Hannah

“Barry Hannah writes the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America today. . . . High Lonesome collects thirteen stories, a handful…

Harbor Lights

by Theodore Weesner

“Sensitively and intelligently composed . . . [Harbor Lights] sings with a poetic simplicity that recalls Russell Banks or Carolyn Chute.” –Publishers Weekly

Had a Good Time

by Robert Olen Butler

“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He…

Grey Area

by Will Self

“If Magritte had been a writer instead of a painter, his work might have looked something like the nine stories in Grey Area. ….

Goodnight, Beautiful Women

by Anna Noyes

An electrifying debut by sensational new literary talent Anna Noyes, Goodnight, Beautiful Women surveys the residents of small New England coastal towns in tales…

Goodnight, Nobody

by Michael Knight

“Arresting. Stylistically, Knight slaloms through old-fashioned noir and snarky postmodernism, and from Barthelmean set pieces to a riff on Stonewall Jackson that evokes one of Barry Hannah’s Civil War fever dreams. . . . Knight has the rare power to make a setting breathe, to invest it with a vitality…