Posted on February 23, 2010 by Ti
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
By Laura van den Berg
Dzanc Books
October 2009
194pp
Here’s the blurb from the publisher:
Containing work reprinted in Best Non-Required Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prizes 2010, the stories in Laura van den Berg’s rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ti
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
By Truman Capote
Random House
September 2004
400pp
The Short of It:
This is a wonderful collection of stories. Meaningful and thought-provoking. Perfect for this time of year.
The Rest of It:
I really enjoy Capote’s writing. A book group friend of mine brought this for a book exchange one year, and it ended up in [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2009 by Ti
Forgetting English
By Midge Raymond
Eastern Washington University Press
November 2008
152pp
Here is the blurb from the publisher:
In this collection of award-winning stories, Midge Raymond explores the indelible imprint of home upon identity, and the ways in which new frontiers both defy and confirm it. The characters that inhabit these stories travel for business and for pleasure, out of [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by Ti
Ugly ManBy Dennis CooperPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersPub. Date: May 2009ISBN-13: 9780061715440
272pp
The blurb from Barnes and Noble:
Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he’s always explored honestly, but does so now—in stories—with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009 by Ti
Have you heard of Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff? She is the author of the very popular The Monsters of Templeton (which is another book with a beautiful cover).
This one is a collection of short stories which I usually steer clear of but I may pick this one up just because [...]
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