--, There Was a River, and Almost an Island--A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice. Wasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the num…
Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his ac…
The best American short stories 2015
by Walter, Jess, McCann, Colum, Johnson, Denis, Fowlkes, Ben, Rao, Shobha, Smith, Laura Lee, Sloss, Aria Beth, Silber, Joan, Meloy, Maile, Lodato, Victor, Kokernot, Sarah, Elliott, Julia, Bergman, Megan Mayhew, Canty, Kevin, Bigos, Justin, Cook, Diane J., Erdrich, Louise, Bontemps Hemenway, Arna, McCracken, Elisabeth, McGuane, Thomas
from(P)The (P)Best American short stories
The best American short stories 2015
by Cook, Diane, Walter, Jess, McCann, Colum, Johnson, Denis, Boyle, T. Coraghessan, Erdrich, Louise, Fowlkes, Ben, Rao, Shobha, Smith, Laura Lee, Sloss, Aria Beth, Silber, Joan, Meloy, Maile, McGuane, Thomas, McCracken, Elizabeth, Lodato, Victor, Kokernot, Sarah, Hemenway, Arna Bontemps, Elliott, Julia, Bergman, Megan Mayhew, Canty, Kevin, Bigos, Justin
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn…
New York, august 1974. Pludselig går trafikken i stå, da folk på jorden opdager, at en mand går på line mellem de to tårne på World Trace Center 110 etager oppe. Denne ekstraordinære handling bliver udgangspunkt for skildringen af otte forskellige menneskers historie set på bagg…
A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn…