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by Karen Russell
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by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsHailed by Lauren Groff as "fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips.
by Ryan O'Neill
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsWith imagination, wit, and a keen eye, Ryan O'Neill draws the essence of the human experience with a cast of characters who stick with you long after you turn the last page of this brilliant short story collection.
by Louis Nowra
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsTwo girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Totally believable, their story will both shock and captivate readers as it explores the animal instincts that lie beneath our civilized veneer and celebrates the ways of the tiger.
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsSouthern gothic at its best, laced with humor and pathos, these wonderfully inventive stories explore the relationship between loss and death and the many ways we try to cope with both.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsA darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.
by George Saunders
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsIn a series of short stories, George Saunders explores consumerism gone haywire in a country and era somewhat like our own.
by Neil Gaiman
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsA mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
The Little Black Book of Stories
by A.S. Byatt
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsThese unforgettable stories are by turns haunting, funny, sparkling, and scary. Byatts Little Black Book adds a deliciously dark note to her skill in mixing folk and fairy tales with everyday life.
by Arthur Bradford
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsWith a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and a sensibility as unique as his subjects, Arthur Bradford peels back a surface layer of depravity and violence to reveal a world of surprising gentleness, compassion, and innocence.
For The Relief of Unbearable Urges
by Nathan Englander
Published Mar 2000
Read ReviewsA work of stunning authority and imagination - a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new storyteller.
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