Many a book has been written about Key West, but there has never been anything like Stetson Kennedy's Grits & Grunts, a portrait of the Key West that was.
Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer's coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, gender, and distinctly American realities of race and class.
This collection of Russian short stories from the 21st century includes works by famous writers and young talents alike, representing a diversity of generational, gender, ethnic and national identities.
“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.
THE CHARACTERS IN SCOTT NADELSONS third collection are living in the wake of momentous events-- the rupture of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the dissolution of dreams, and yet they find new ways of forging on with their lives, making accommodations that are sometimes delusional, sometimes destructive, sometimes even healthy.
William Gay firmly established himself as "e;the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit"e; (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night.
As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.
"Was der Georg Paulmichl schreibt, ist für mich die höchste Stufe der Poesie, die ein heute lebender Mensch erklimmen kann", so der große Schauspieler Dietmar Schönherr über den Südtiroler Dichter und Maler.
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages wisdom, and winged weapons of war.
In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she "e;has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern letters.
From the strange erotics of household appliances to the shock of a childs first encounter with death, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.
Keys in the River: New and Collected Stories, is a cycle of stories about life, love and spirituality, told as if the reader were sitting and listening to neighbors and friends talking about life.
The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including "e;Syncopation D"e; which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008.
Finalist, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada)A beautifully imagined story collection set largely in Nigeria that explores themes of masculinity and repressed desires through the lens of (un)conditional loveIn this stunning debut story collection set largely in Nigeria, questions abound: What happens when we fall short of societysand our ownexpectations?
A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time.
An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature.
In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.
Dive into a thrilling adventure through space and time with The Variable Man, a captivating tale of humanity's struggle against a powerful and corrupt alien empire.
Menschen mit Goldfischen im Haar und Sicheln im Kopf, auf Scheiterhaufen halbverkohlte Feen, die in einem Wasserglas ertrinkende Ophelia, Schach spielende Kühe, grausig gutzende Golze und Zugreisende, die ihre Beine im Gepäck mitführen: Alfred Lichtenstein, Christian Morgenstern, E.
A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almod var'Almod var s mind seems to be reporting from another world to illuminate, clarify, and challenge our own KAVEH AKBAR'Akin to a Spanish Angela Carter' TELEGRAPHThe Last Dream brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almod var s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day.
2012 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - Winner2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Finalist, English-Language Fiction In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War.
