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The Best American Short Stories 2021

Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
ISBN 13 : 1328485382
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2021 written by Jesmyn Ward and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew. The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others

The Best American Short Stories 2023

Author : Min Jin Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063275929
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2023 written by Min Jin Lee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home. Enlightening, poignant, and undeniably human, the stories in this anthology bravely confront societal darkness and offer, in Lee’s words, “our emotional truths, restoring our sanity and providing comfort for the days ahead.” The Best American Short Stories 2023 includes Cherline Bazile • Maya Binyam • Tom Bissell • Taryn Bowe • Da-Lin • Benjamin Ehrlich• Sara Freeman • Lauren Groff • Nathan Harris • Jared Jackson • Sana Krasikov • Danica Li • Ling Ma • Manuel Muñoz • Joanna Pearson • Souvankham Thammavongsa • Kosiso Ugwueze • Corinna Vallianatos • Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi • Esther Yi

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Author : Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
ISBN 13 : 1328485366
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2020 written by Curtis Sittenfeld and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.

The Best American Short Stories 2019

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
ISBN 13 : 1328465829
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2019 written by Anthony Doerr and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Short Stories 2022

Author : Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358724392
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2022 written by Andrew Sean Greer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395843673
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Short Stories of the Century written by John Updike and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").

The Best Short Stories 2021

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593311264
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Best Short Stories 2021 written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year—continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence. "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly. Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest editor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and young emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Adichie, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. Featured in this collection: Daphne Palasi Andreades • David Means • Sindya Bhanoo • Crystal Wilkinson • Alice Jolly • David Rabe • Karina Sainz Borgo (translator, Elizabeth Bryer) • Jamel Brinkley • Tessa Hadley • Adachioma Ezeano • Anthony Doerr • Tiphanie Yanique • Joan Silber • Jowhor Ile • Emma Cline • Asali Solomon • Ben Hinshaw • Caroline Albertine Minor (translator, Caroline Waight) • Jianan Qian • Sally Rooney

Best Debut Short Stories 2021

Author :
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220803
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Best Debut Short Stories 2021 written by and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual—and essential—collection of the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen answers to these questions. The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary magazines in the previous year. They are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do to nurture literature's newest voices.

The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story

Author : Michael J. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009292854
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story written by Michael J. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.

Best New Short Stories 2021

Author : A. Z. Writers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950105113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Best New Short Stories 2021 written by A. Z. Writers and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Short Stories 2021 by AZ Writers contains 28 captivating stories written by over two dozen American authors. The diversity of our authors' backgrounds and their finely honed talent of writing from the heart make this book an excellent choice for anyone who enjoys reading. In this collection, the reader will experience the writing voice and style of many authors. Readers will also find a contemporary multi-genre collection of stories by authors who have a story to tell and the talent to write it. This anthology includes memoir stories, fiction, historical fiction, creative non-fiction, suspense, and many other genres that will amuse, intrigue, and mystify the reader. A few of these stories may make you laugh, and a few may bring a tear to your eye. In this collection, you will find well-crafted stories with irony, adventure, mystery, crime, and a couple of stories with a bit of romance. A superb choice for a cruise, a day at the beach or pool, a long flight, or just to sit at home and have a relaxing read in your favorite chair.

Best New Short Stories 2021

Author : Az Writers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950105168
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Best New Short Stories 2021 written by Az Writers and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Short Stories 2021 by AZ Writers contains 28 captivating stories written by a group of talented authors. The diversity of our authors' backgrounds and their finely honed talent of writing from the heart make this book an excellent choice for anyone who enjoys reading. In this collection, the reader will experience the writing voice and style of many authors. Readers will also find a contemporary multi-genre collection of stories by authors who have a story to tell and the talent to write it. This anthology includes memoir stories, fiction, historical fiction, creative non-fiction, suspense, and many other genres that will amuse, intrigue, and mystify the reader. A few of these stories may make you laugh, and a few may bring a tear to your eye. In this collection, you will find well-crafted stories with irony, adventure, mystery, crime, and a couple of stories with a bit of romance. A superb choice for a cruise, a day at the beach or pool, a long flight, or just to sit at home and have a relaxing read in your favorite chair. And for those who may not have read any of the other fine works published by AZ Writers, the AZ Writers group has published 10 additional Short Story and Poetry books in the last 3 years. Many are also published as Large Print and digital editions. Best New Short Stories 2021 will be available in a Large Print edition as of January 2021.

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Author : Jamil Jan Kochai
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593297202
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories written by Jamil Jan Kochai and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022 "An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent." —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins. A luminous new collection of stories from a young writer who “has brought his culture’s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters.” —Sandra Cisneros Pen/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness, Kochai once again captures “a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers.”* In “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain," a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, "Return to Sender" follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the US and care for their fellow Afghans, even when their own son disappears. A college student in the US in "Hungry Ricky Daddy" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. And in the title story, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak," we learn the story of a man codenamed Hajji, from the perspective of a government surveillance worker, who becomes entrenched in the immigrant family's life. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement—and one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today. *The New York Times Book Review

Writing the Multicultural Experience

Author : Pauline Kaldas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031061241
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Multicultural Experience written by Pauline Kaldas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook takes a new approach to teaching creative writing that centers the concerns of multicultural students. It focuses on the experiences of those who wish to write through their diverse identities, including ethnic, cultural, racial, national, regional, and international identity as well as gender identity, sexual preference, class position, and disability. Combining the study of culturally diverse literature with the process of writing, students are encouraged to engage with various texts and to use them to inspire their own work. Organized around a series of writing prompts and discussions of literary readings that address identity, place, perception, family, community, encounters, inheritance, and resistance, this book offers both writers and teachers a way to engage with the practice of writing from a multicultural perspective.

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak

Author : Jamil Jan Kochai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526664771
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Haunting of Hajji Hotak written by Jamil Jan Kochai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the National Book Award - a luminous new collection of stories from a young writer with 'a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers' (New York Times) **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION** **NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ATLANTIC** PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness. In “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,” a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, “Return to Sender” follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the US and care for their fellow Afghans, even when their own son disappears. A college student in the US in “Hungry Ricky Daddy” starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. And in the title story, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” we learn the story of a man codenamed Hajji, from the perspective of a government surveillance worker, who becomes entrenched in the immigrant family's life. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement - and one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today. 'An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent' Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins. 'Kochai's short fiction defies expectations – readers' expectations of what a story should look like, and the story of a nation often told reductively and exclusively through media headlines' Guardian

Direct Sunlight

Author : Christine Sneed
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810146177
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Direct Sunlight written by Christine Sneed and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twelve stories by award-winning author Christine Sneed The stories in Direct Sunlight, award-winning author Christine Sneed’s latest, are inspired by the memorable strangeness of everyday life. The characters in these topically diverse tales experience events that bring the terms of their day-to-day lives and their relationships into focus in a way hitherto foreign to them. The title story features two adult children learning of their father’s second family long after his death in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “Mega Millions” explores the aftermath of a small-town midwestern factory employee’s enormous lottery win. In “Dear Kelly Bloom,” a young journalist takes on the role of advice columnist at a faltering Chicago newspaper around the time of the 2008 financial meltdown and soon finds himself tasked with replying to his own mother’s letter requesting guidance on family matters. In “The Monkey’s Uncle Louis,” a contentedly childless man tries to make sense of his sister’s decision to adopt a capuchin monkey after she and her husband find themselves unable to conceive a baby of their own. The stories in Direct Sunlight rely on humor but are balanced by Sneed’s clear-eyed sobriety about the sorrows inherent in the human condition.

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

Author : Rita Chang-Eppig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639730389
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea written by Rita Chang-Eppig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. As Recommended By The TODAY Show * Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * Real Simple * Time * Popsugar * HuffPost * Los Angeles Times * Ms. Magazine * Book Riot * Elle.com * The Rumpus * Tor.com * Polygon * Debutiful * Electric Lit * Shondaland * When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans-tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance-have new plans for the area. Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life. A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063275171
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 written by John Joseph Adams and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.