It's fitting that Christmas should degenerate to this, its barest bones. The family has begun to seem to Therese like a pack of thespians anyway; everyone arrives, performs for one another, catches early flights out, to Logan or O'Hare. Probably it's appropriate that a party gam…
It's fitting that Christmas should degenerate to this, its barest bones. The family has begun to seem to Therese like a pack of thespians anyway; everyone arrives, performs for one another, catches early flights out, to Logan or O'Hare. Probably it's appropriate that a party gam…
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power…
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power…
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power…
Twelve stories on human relations. In Charades, a traditional family game on Christmas turns sour when the charades hit too close to home, while in Agnes of Iowa, a woman's ambition to be worldly remains unfulfilled by an encounter with a poet from Africa.
by Welty, Eudora, Saunders, George, Moore, Lorrie, Baldwin, James, Stone, Robert, Olsen, Tillie, Hale, Nancy, Oates, Joyce Carol, Updike, John, Carver, Raymond, Englander, Nathan, Groff, Lauren, Otsuka, Julie, Paley, Grace, Wolff, Tobias, Ford, Richard, Gaitskill, Mary, Jones, Edward P., Baxter, Charles, Pitlor, Heidi, Lardner, Ring, Simpson, Mona, Louie, David Wong, Sharma, Akhil, Packer, ZZ, Percy, Benjamin, Ferber, Edna, Anderson, Sherwood, Hemingway, Ernest, Fitzgerald, Francis Scott, Porter, Katherine Anne, Faulkner, William, Cheever, John, Roth, Philip, O'Connor, Flannery, Barthelme, Donald, Elkin, Stanley, Munro, Alice, Kincaid, Jamaica, Díaz, Junot, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Alexie, Sherman
