Tag Archives: Short Stories (single author)
Goodnight, Beautiful Women
by Anna NoyesAn 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…
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler“Deeply affecting . . . A brilliant collection of stories about storytellers whose recited folklore radiates as implicit prayer . . . One of…
Gigantic
by Marc Nesbitt“[The] stories are suffused with a sort of poetry. . . . Beautiful . . . Nesbitt is smart, dark, and funny, like a…
Four Novels
by Marguerite DurasLong acknowledged as one of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras has garnered worldwide praise for her work.
The First Hurt
by Rachel Sherman“Rachel Sherman writes stories like splinters: they get under your skin and stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. These haunting stories…
Ficciones
by Jorge Borges“Borges’s composed, carefully wrought, gnarled style is at once the means of his art and its object—his way of ordering and giving meaning to…
Farewell Navigator
by Leni ZumasA brilliantly stylish and unique debut story collection about the unseen corners of American life.
The Farmer’s Daughter
by Jim HarrisonThe Farmer’s Daughter is a marvelous feast of a book that represents Jim Harrison’s finest collection of novellas since Legends of the Fall.
Evil Eye
by Joyce Carol Oates“A dazzling, disturbing tour de force of Gothic suspense: four odd, compelling, ingeniously narrated tales that gain in power and resonance when read in…
