The Penguin book of the modern American short story
by O'Brien, Tim, King, Stephen, Sontag, Susan, Saunders, George, Walker, Alice, Liu, Ken, Danticat, Edwidge, Davis, Lydia, Johnson, Charles, Allison, Dorothy, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Bambara, Toni Cade, Bass, Rick, Berlin, Lucia, Carver, Raymond, Chiang, Ted, Cisneros, Sandra, Díaz, Junot, Dybek, Stuart, Englander, Nathan, Erdrich, Louise, Everett, Percival, Groff, Lauren, Hemon, Aleksandar, Holleran, Andrew, Johnson, Denis, Kincaid, Jamaica, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Le Guin, Ursula K., Muñoz, Manuel, Otsuka, Julie, Paley, Grace, Russell, Karen, Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Watkins, Claire Vaye, Williams, Joy, Wolff, Tobias
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.…
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices
A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," in which a professor is stymied by her choices.
Sex, or the unbearable
by Berlant, Lauren Gail, Davis, Lydia, Edelman, Lee
fromTheory Q
Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia Davis' story "Break It Down" (reprinted in full here), this book explores what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable.