Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)
The Importance of a Piece of Paper
by Jimmy Santiago Baca“[Baca] continues to mine his experience, exploring conflicts between the rich traditions of Chicano culture and a modern world impatient with them. . ….
I Want to Show You More
by Jamie Quatro“Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O’Connor . . . Quatro…
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 OatesA 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…
