Archive for the ‘Short Stories’ Category
BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING by Dagoberto Gilb
Dagoberto Gilbās latest book, BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING, although a slight collection, is loaded with insight and humor. Itās a book about identity, about the tension between limiting factors outside our controlā our race, our class, our gender ā and our complexity as individuals.
November 9, 2011
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Tags: 2012 PB Release, Grove Press, Latin American, Short Stories Ā· Posted in: Award Winning Author, Class - Race - Gender, Humorous, Identity, Latin American, Mexico, Short Stories, Texas
THE OUTLAW ALBUM by Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell is widely known for the movie adaptation of his novel, Winterās Bone, which won the Sundance Film Festivalās Best Picture Prize in 2010. He has just published his first book of short stories, THE OUTLAW ALBUM, a collection of twelve dark and riveting stories.
November 1, 2011
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Tags: 2013 - authors with books coming out in 2013, Daniel Woodrell, Ozarks, Short Stories Ā· Posted in: Short Stories, US South
FANTASTIC WOMEN edited by Rob Spillman
Yes, be careful. Be very careful. The eighteen women in this book write depth-charge stories with the power to disturb and detonate unseen. Do not be deceived by the bland and poorly-designed cover (which I hope is only temporary); none of these tales is ordinary, all are excellently crafted, and a few are exceptional. Joy Williams, in her excellent introduction, calls them “witty, spooky, disorienting, and artful.” They are all those, and also at some level deeply True.
October 19, 2011
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BLUEPRINTS FOR BUILDING BETTER GIRLS by Elissa Schappell
Poor Holden Caulfield. In Catcher in the Rye, he muses, āGirls. You never know what theyāre going to think.ā How right he was! In Elissa Schappellās new short story collection, the old blueprints for Appropriate Female Behavior — the name of a vintage etiquette manual, 1963 edition — have all been tossed away. And now the girls and women are forced to muddle through with the new rules: Be yourself but also be what your boyfriend, parents, and girlfriends want you to be as well.
October 11, 2011
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Tags: Friendship, Humorous, mother-daughter, Short Stories, sisters Ā· Posted in: Humorous, Short Stories
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2011 edited by Geraldine Brooks
This yearās editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2011 is Geraldine Brooks, an accomplished journalist and fiction writer. She says of her selections āthat the easiest and the first choices were the stories to which I had a physical response.ā I would agree that the best stories in this collection are those that are most visceral and physical in nature. Ms. Brooks also states that āIn the end, the stories I fell upon with perhaps the greatest delight were the outliers, the handful or so that defied the overwhelming gravitational pull toward small-canvas contemporary realism.ā
October 5, 2011
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Tags: 2011 PB Release, Allegra Goodman, Best American Short Stories, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Geraldine Brooks, hmh, Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca Makkai, Short Stories Ā· Posted in: Short Stories
NORTHWEST ANGLE by William Kent Krueger
In NORTHWEST ANGLE, William Kent Kruegerās 11th book in the award winning Cork OāConnor series, Cork and his family vacation in September on a houseboat in Canada, near the Northwest Angle area of Minnesota. Cork had hoped that his family, including his three children, Jenny, Annie and Steve and his sister-in-law Rose and her husband Mel, could finally get some time to relax and enjoy each other. They had all suffered the loss of Corkās wife two yearās prior and they had not yet found any time to spend together especially since his kids had become older and living on their own.
Unfortunately for Cork and his family, the vacation becomes anything but enjoyable when soon after arrival, Cork and his older daughter Jenny become trapped in a major quick forming and very dangerous derecho storm that shipwrecks them on one of the many islands in the area.
October 2, 2011
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Tags: 2012 - authors with books published this year, 2012 PB Release, 2013 - authors with books coming out in 2013, Minnesota, murder mystery, Native American, Sleuth, Thriller Ā· Posted in: Family Matters, Literary, PEN/Hemingway Winner, Short Stories, Writing Life
