Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then.
Outsiders, outcasts, isolation, mutilation, transformation, exhibitionism, toxic families, poverty, identities, bodies, desire, transcendence, despair are just some of what legendary writer Katherine Dunn so grotesquely and beautifully mined in her small but powerful body of work.
At a high-stakes investor convention for the future of space, burned-out rocket engineer Bill Sherman has one afternoon to save his startup, his marriage, and his career.
2026 Finalist for The Eric Hoffer Award The first collection of award-winning short fiction from the author of Bellflower and Things to See in Arizona; Mary Vensel White's writing reflects "e;how we can endure and overcome our personal histories, better understand our ancestral ones, and accept the unknown future ahead.
Ob ein Essen bei einem Bekannten, eine Zugfahrt durch den Schwarzwald oder ein Besuch beim Bäcker, ob Tod und Krankheit, Liebe und Sehnsucht, eine Flasche Bier oder eine russisch-westfälische Tunke, für den scharfsinnigen Denker und Aphoristiker Otto Jägersberg ist alles Anlass zur Äußerung, zur literarischen Positionierung oder zum hellsichtigen Philosophieren.
Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegl Savas's acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.
Agypten ist ein Land der Gegensatze: Orient in Afrika, tropische Natur inmitten der Wuste, christliche Kultur in einem muslimischen Staat, Millionenstadte neben totaler Abgeschiedenheit, Reichtum neben Armut.
Agypten ist ein Land der Gegensatze: Orient in Afrika, tropische Natur inmitten der Wuste, christliche Kultur in einem muslimischen Staat, Millionenstadte neben totaler Abgeschiedenheit, Reichtum neben Armut.
Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then.
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
