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20 Under 40

Stories from The New Yorker

Edited by Deborah Treisman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will...

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Hardcover : $25.99 Buy	21 Essential American Short Stories Edited by Leslie M. Pockell Thomas Dunne Books A vibrant journey through the annals of classic American short stories 21 Essential American Short Stories is a collection of beloved stories that have...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Almost No Memory Stories Lydia Davis Picador Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction,...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	American Masculine Stories Shann Ray Graywolf Press Paper "Ray's stories resonate hard and clear, very much word images reflecting the Montana setting of the collection . . . Think Hemingway or Jim Harrison, and know that Ray's collection is the deserving winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize."—*Kirkus Reviews*

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Ancestors and Others

New and Selected Stories

Fred Chappell St. Martin's Press

In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	At the Jim Bridger Stories Ron Carlson Picador Welcome to the short stories of Ron Carlson, where strange beach towels turn up in your suburban living room; where the ordinary son of a family of geniuses...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Best of Simple Langston Hughes Hill and Wang Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind,...

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The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge

William Kittredge Graywolf Press Paper

"Kittredge’s stories—graceful, savvy, expansive, poignant, and sometimes even grave—tell us that it is our affections, not our courage or our toughness or our willingness to be unequivocal, that keeps us from one day to another. And that is a truth worth hearing. I only wish there were more of these stories."—Richard Ford

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	Best Stories of the American West, Volume I Edited by Marc Jaffe Forge Books Here is a collection of the best contemporary short stories of the American West by a diverse group of writers, young and old, male and female, well-known and...

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A Better Angel

Stories

Chris Adrian Picador

“Adrian, himself a pediatrician and seminary student, is a lucid, brilliant fortune-teller. He unveils our demons, who, in the wake of their visitations upon these children, reveal something you can only call the face of God.”—Tom Chiarella, Esquire

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Black American Short Stories Edited by John Henrik Clarke Hill and Wang The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Born on a Train Thirteen Stories John McManus Picador Two years ago--at twenty-two--John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Break It Down Stories Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis’s trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and...

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Chemistry and Other Stories

Ron Rash Picador

A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled,...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Cliffs of Fall And Other Stories Shirley Hazzard Picador From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment Shirley Hazzard’s stories are...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Coast of Chicago Stories Stuart Dybek Picador The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon Caroline Gordon Farrar, Straus and Giroux The complete collection of short fiction from a literary stylist who captured the nuances of life in the American South of the early twentieth century, The...

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The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

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Deborah Eisenberg Picador

"Deborah Eisenberg writes with a playwright's quick, bristling ear for dialogue and a painter's affection for nuance and image . . . Miss Eisenberg has found words to capture all the fleeting, ambivalent emotions of daily experience . . . and she's turned those elusive feelings into shimmering stories that possess the power to charm and to move us."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford; Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Farrar, Straus and Giroux "The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph."—Guy Davenport, New York Times Book Review

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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis Picador

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A LOS ANGELES TIMES FICTION FAVORITE FOR 2009 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF 2009 Lydia Davis is one...

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Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor Peter Taylor; Introduction by Richard Bausch Farrar, Straus and Giroux Described by Anne Tyler as “the undisputed master of the short story form,” Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Richard Yates; Introduction by Richard Russo Picador "Unflinching and uncompromising, complex [stories that] seem to unfold naturally and simply . . . Miraculous."—*San Francisco Chronicle*

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The Collected Stories

Grace Paley Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"Grace Paley makes me weep and laugh—and admire. She is that rare kind of writer, a natural, with a voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute."—Susan Sontag

National Book Awards - Nominee - Fiction

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