Anthologies featuring bestselling authors alongside rising stars. Short story collections from some of our beloved authors with Roald Dahl, Raymond Carver and Anita Desai among the better known
Anthologies & Short Stories
University of Minnesota Press Everything Is Now New and Collected Stories
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The University of Alabama Press Points of Honor
Book SynopsisA masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle. Points of Honor is based on author Thomas Alexander Boyd's personal experiences as an enlisted Marine. First published in 1925 and long out of print, this edition rescues from obscurity a vivid, kaleidoscopic vision of American soldiers, serving in a global conflict a century ago.Trade ReviewThomas Boyd is famous for the novel Through the Wheat, now enshrined as a World War I classic. In Points of Honor, through a set of interlocking narratives, he pulls off something of a short story version of William March’s Company K. A clear and interesting introduction by Steven Trout, pegged for the literate general reader, makes a strong case for the stories as something of an advance over Through the Wheat. Here the characters and situations are diverse, and the modes of narration and development are strikingly varied."" - Philip D. Beidler, author of Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination and The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
£15.26
The University of Alabama Press Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey
Book SynopsisA deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to the Volunteer State's most enduring ghost stories. This handsome commemorative hardback edition returns Windham's suspenseful classic to its original keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.Table of Contents I. The Sanke Charmer II The Rosary III The Trees IV Long Dog V The Barrel of Sin VI The Dark Legend VII The Chapel Hill Light VIII Memphis’ Great Jar Mystery IX Shiloh Revisited X The Exorcism of Aunt Crecy XI The Restless Rocker XII The Blessing XIII Stains on the Mausoleum The Witch Who Tormented The Bell Family Afterword to the Commemorative Edition Dilcy Windham Hilley and Ben Windham
£14.20
Duke University Press Chocolate and Other Writings on Male
Book SynopsisA translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked Indias first public debates about homosexuality.Trade Review“Vanita’s introduction and translated stories will be useful to anyone interested in same-sex love and the intersections of homophobia and nationalism in India. [S]he provides a valuable interpretation of the stories and Ugra’s ambivalent stance on homosexuality. The stories could be read alone, but Vanita’s contextualization is critical for understanding the debate around homosexuality in India and thus the significance of Chocolate.” - Lisa I. Knight, International Journal of Hindu Studies“A resplendent translation of an underground classic on a subject—homosexual desire – that still remains largely confined to the closet in India. Ruth Vanita has done an admirable service to Indian literature by giving this important work of Hindi fiction another life through her translation and a luminous introduction that brings out the ambiguities of the text and the ambivalences of its path-breaking author. A rare book that will delight and enlighten the common as well as the scholarly reader.”—Krishna Baldev Vaid, Hindi novelist“This book is an extraordinarily valuable resource on sexuality. Ruth Vanita’s translations of ‘Ugra’ are fluid and comfortable (no small feat when one is translating from colloquial Hindi); her introduction is well researched, thoroughly documented, and written in lovely style; and her arguments are subtle and replete with enough material to introduce South Asia to a novice and to keep the attention of a reader well versed in the region.”—Geeta Patel, author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry“Vanita’s introduction and translated stories will be useful to anyone interested in same-sex love and the intersections of homophobia and nationalism in India. [S]he provides a valuable interpretation of the stories and Ugra’s ambivalent stance on homosexuality. The stories could be read alone, but Vanita’s contextualization is critical for understanding the debate around homosexuality in India and thus the significance of Chocolate.” -- Lisa I. Knight * International Journal of Hindu Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on This Translation xi Introduction xv Original Prefatory Materials 1 Chocolate 11 Kept Boy 19 We Are In Love with Lucknow 30 Waist Curved Like a She-Cobra 37 Discussing Chocolate 47 O Beautiful Young Man 52 Dissolute Love 58 In Prison 67 From Letters of Some Beautiful Ones 73
£21.59
University of Pittsburgh Press The Source of Life and Other Stories
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£27.50
University of Pittsburgh Press Now You Know It All
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University of Pittsburgh Press It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories
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University of Pittsburgh Press Small in Real Life
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£23.47
University of Pittsburgh Press Prince Of Fire The Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories Russian and East European Studies
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English,this is the first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The anthology represents works by established writers with international reputations and promising new writers spanning the generation born between 1930 and 1960.
£43.00
University of Pittsburgh Press The Truly Needy and Other Stories Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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£19.00
University of Pittsburgh Press In the Gathering Woods Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Frank Conroy. Inter-connected short stories about a family with roots in a remote Italian mountain village.Trade Review"Craft and imagination distinguish this short-story cycle about a long bloodline originating in a remote Italian mountain village.... Their stories flower forth from the family tree with the arresting color of a late-season bloom." - Chicago Tribune; "Here at last is fiction worthy of award.... Haunting, with a taste in the words like bitter cherries." - Booklist, starred review; "Lyrical and lovely.... Narrators in these stories share a common Italian ancestry, but a stronger link is their dialect of loneliness.... An exquisite collection." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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University of Pittsburgh Press 20 Twenty Best Of Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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£23.60
University of Pittsburgh Press The Physics of Imaginary Objects
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University of Pittsburgh Press Vaquita and Other Stories
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University of Pittsburgh Press Bring Your Legs with You
Book SynopsisWinner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, this set of interconnected stories center around a retired prize fighter living in Las Vegas. The characters are as unforgettable and intriguing as the dialogue.
£24.22
University of Pittsburgh Press Fado and Other Stories
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University of Pittsburgh Press Out Loud
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Varallo's short story collection gives voice to the disconnections of family and relationships, and the silent emotions that often speak louder than words. It tells of longings for meaningful expression and the complexities and escapism of human interactions that keep us from these truths.
£22.95
University of Pittsburgh Press The Spirit Bird Stories Drue Heinz Literature Prize
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University of Pittsburgh Press This Angel on My Chest
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2015 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZESelected by Jill McCorkleThis Angel on My Chest is a collection of unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies suddenly and unexpectedly.Trade ReviewWith a delicate balance of cleverness and emotion, the sixteen stories in Pietrzyk's collection explore the event of her husband's sudden death at the breakfast table in 1997. . . . The author's wit, clarity, and literary inventiveness dance circles around the omnipresent sadness, making this book a prime example of the furious creative energy that can explode from the collision of grief with talent and craftsmanship. . . . Running through them are recurrent details that add the weight of obsessive memory: a carefully organized library of books, a bowl of cornflakes, the music of Springsteen (a misunderstood line of which gives the collection its name), an extramarital affair. Pietrzyk explores every aspect of the truth, including the parts you have to make up, and never gives in to sentimentality or self-pity. . . . This book is the winner of the distinguished Drue Heinz Literature Prize, upholding its tradition of excellence in short fiction. Like Magic Rocks in a fishbowl, these stories turn the stones of grief into something bright, crystalline, mesmerizing."" - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)""By turning her personal experience into a universal story of loss, Pietrzyk transforms the stream-of-consciousness into a compelling narrative."" - Washington City Paper""The variety of voices, formats and emotions is rather remarkable and keeps the collection entertaining."" - BookBrowse ""An oddball of a book that nevertheless elicits myriad emotions from the reader. Though at times emotionally draining, each piece--the whole book, in fact—is a masterwork of craft and an utterly raw exploration of grief."" - Gandy Dancer""A powerful and moving collection. These stories are held together by the experience of grief; a husband dying too soon and a wife left to go on. There is an abundance of wit, and wise observations about life. I always felt firmly rooted in the emotion, startled again and again by the weight of the simplest everyday objects and situations, against a backdrop of loss."" - Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life""A stunning book, a rare tour de force, this prismatic look at the devastation of losing a young spouse explodes with intelligence, with poetry, with personality, with a dazzling array of views from different perspectives all faced toward the same empty, motionless center. It is ablaze with Pietrzyk’s courage and her compassion. Pages fly by until the subject no longer merely frightens you but now terrifies, while making your heart more open, more understanding all at once. This, folks, is what writing is all about. I am in awe. - Robin Black, author of If I loved you, I would tell you this ""Leslie Pietrzyk has been a favorite writer of mine for a long time now. Don’t miss these stories."" - Richard Bausch, author of Before, During, After
£20.00
University of Pittsburgh Press 20 More
Book SynopsisIncluding short fiction stories by Joanna Pearson, Kate Wisel, Brad Felver, William Wall and Melissa Yancy, amongst many others, 20 More selects the best submissions by up-and-coming writers to the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
£18.40
University of Hawai'i Press Imperfect Paradise Stories Fiction from Modern China 5
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University of Hawai'i Press Stories for Saturday Twentiethcentury Chinese
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the 20th century, many Chinese lost themselves in tales of scandal, romance and martial gallantry - standard reading for city dwellers craving escape. The stories selected and translated here are a record of what urban life was like, as well as what readers wished it to be.
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University of Hawai'i Press In Light of Shadows More Gothic Tales by Izumi
Book SynopsisThis second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taisho writer Izumi Kyoka. It includes the novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story Mayu kakushi no rei (A quiet obsession), and Kyoka's hauntingly erotic final work, Rukoshinso (The heartvine), as well as discussions of each of these three tales.
£16.16
University of Hawai'i Press Five Faces of Japanese Feminism
Book SynopsisThis exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904â1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of women rarely dignified in fiction: glamorous cafà waitresses, feisty communist activists, a tortured novelist, a soldierâs wife, and single women in Japanâs Korean colony. Her delicately penned portraits challenge the tired, erotic tropes of the geisha and schoolgirl, while delving into the dilemmas women themselves faced in their personal and professional relationships. The stories and novella translated here span a period of two decades and the most important events and themes in twentieth-century history. âœCafà Kyotoâ (1929) takes up the glamorous, if tragic, lives of cafà waitresses in the wake of the late 1920s Depression. âœTears of a Factory Girl in the Union Leadershipâ (1931) offers a unique portrait of a woman who works with the underground Communist Party. âœThe Scent of Incenseâ (1942), written as a work of âœhome frontâ literature, was meant to he
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR In the Silence
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£19.96
University of Missouri Press Blue Money
Book SynopsisIn this collection of stories, Susan Hubbard creates a world in which the most ordinary things can be magical, and the most ordinary people can be extraordinary. Women's relationships with men, whether they be fathers, lovers, or strangers, are a prominent theme that runs through the stories.
£19.51
University of Missouri Press Partisan Wedding
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University of Missouri Press Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 8 Later
Book SynopsisThe Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of his Simple stories.
£47.70
University of Missouri Press The City of Refuge
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£32.78
University of New Mexico Press Oy Caramba An Anthology of Jewish Stories from
Book SynopsisJewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jewish Latin American literature. First published in 1994 as Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers, Ilan Stavans's classic anthology is expanded and updated in this new edition.Trade ReviewWriters from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff . . . and Germán Rozenmacher, a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers."" - Library Journal""Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest."" - Publishers Weekly
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Unm Press A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Death of Sheherzad
Book SynopsisA man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead ancestors. A sage who cannot control his anger must seek out a butcher for redemption. Mahaban, once the home of monkeys, is now a city filled with human beings. Sheherzad, who once told Emperor Shaharyar one thousand and one stories, is now an old woman who has forgotten her fantastical yarns. The fifteen stories in The Death of Sheherzad ably represent Intizar Husain's oeuvre, defying narrative tradition and exploring the past, specifically the Partition of India, as a means of unraveling the present. He imaginatively revisits a syncretic, tolerant, pluralistic past to analyze why the tide turned so irreversibly. Questioning everything faith, violence, society Husain probes the horrors of Partition in a manner as oblique as it is trenchant. I
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Agony of the Ghost
Book SynopsisHasan Azizul Huq is known for his stories that bring a powerful social consciousness to bear on the lives of ordinary people in contemporary Bangladesh--but doing so with surprising twists to what we think of as the typical grounds of realistic fiction. The Agony of the Ghost gathers twelve remarkable stories from his large oeuvre that offer a sense of the range of his insights and approaches. In Without Name or Lineage, a man returns home in search of his wife and son after the war, only to find them in ways both unexpected and expected. The Sorcerer finds a sorcerer dying without revealing his secrets to three brothers who had been trying to compel him to tell--and strange deaths follow. In Throughout the Afternoon, a disarmingly simple story, a young boy awaits his grandfather's death. In all the stories, the lives of the most disadvantaged people in Bengali society are revealed in harrowing, unforgettable detail.
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Watkins Media Limited The Alien Stars
Book SynopsisThe first novella collection set in the world of Pratt's popular Axiom space opera trilogy.Trade Review"It’s delightful.""Each of these tales delivers the buoyant humor and adventure of the Axiom novels...Fans will be pleased." – Publishers Weekly"for anyone who wants fun stories of AI as they explore the universe and occasionally save it."
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Kent State University Press Fourteen Stories
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Cornell University Press The Spoils
Book SynopsisDeep in the landlocked heart of the Midwest, the characters in The Spoils are drowning under the weight of masculinity, paralyzed in the grip of things left unsaid. These men are broken and breaking, struggling to reckon with the decisions they''ve made and those they have yet to face. Set mostly in and around Kansas, the stories in this powerful collection explore how men perform, in their jobs and personal lives, and investigate the gray area between doing what''s best for oneself and acting a part to make others happy. A man questions whether he should leave his drug-addicted girlfriend and her son or stay, sacrificing his own well-being to be the boy''s father. Fed up with the role of the stooge, a Washington Generals player takes his A-game to the Harlem Globetrotters and has to face the unforeseen consequences. A rookie prison guard sent to procure a death row inmate''s final meal commits a small, subversive act of humanity. In a world where the line between right and wTrade ReviewWhile many of the conflicts contained in this collection are heavy, the book is light and highly readable thanks to Pycior's ability to convey lived-in stories with Heartland humanity. * Necessary Fiction *Pycior reminds us with insight and empathy that while we are all broken in different ways, we are all broken. * Lincoln Journal Star *
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Cornell University Press The Things We Do That Make No Sense
Book SynopsisWe are guilty of actions that make no sense. We perform acts of beauty and acts of ugliness. We give in to hidden ambitions, latent hungers, and clumsy grasps at insight. At the heart of these stories are the rituals—grand and small—in which we humans partake; the peculiar gestures we hope will forge meaning or help us glean some sort of...
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University of Iowa Press Articles of Faith
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University of Iowa Press Troublemakers
Book SynopsisA collection of short stories about men on the edge. From the streets of Chicago's southwest side to the rural roads of Nebraska to the small towns of southern Illinois, these men tread a very fine line between right and wrong, love and hate, humour and horror.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hollywood Troubleshooter W. T. Ballards Bill
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Carnegie-Mellon University Press Partners and Strangers
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Tamal Vista Publications The Dog Thief
Book SynopsisAs a college student, Chul-Woo Lim witnessed the Kwangju Uprising during which hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were massacred by the South Korean government of Chun Doo Hwan. Lim's desire to bear witness to this tragic event became one of the motivating forces behind his writing. This work was published one year after the massacre.
£22.91
Gnomon Press The Balm of Gilead Tree New and Selected Stories
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The University of Alabama Press Uncle Ovids Exercise Book
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Swan Isle Press Lost Cities Go to Paradise
Book SynopsisComposed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention.
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WW Norton & Co Maria Maria
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut.Trade Review"In Marytza K. Rubio’s genre-defying debut collection of short stories, the characters—which span from women to animals to the moon—negotiate with nature, invoking Mexican American myths, mystics, and magic. Maria, Maria & Other Stories stretches across the Americas, reimagines the boundaries of reality and fiction, and expands upon the spaces between life and death." -- National Book Foundation announcement, 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction"[A] stunning debut . . . While most of the stories are set in Southern California, a few reach farther afield to Brazil and New Orleans while featuring primarily female protagonists—mothers, sisters, friends, aunts, and cousins—ferociously celebrating feminine power. Rubio confects her moving, disturbing, and intense stories in a variety of styles, voices, and tones, from dark parody to heart-wrenching, grotesque, and violent yet touching. Adorned with illustrations of powerful simplicity . . . Teens will be fascinated by these playful and intense stories featuring young women and girls." -- Sara Martinez, Booklist, starred review"Rubio is an extravagant storyteller; her prose thrums with life, and her plots take hairpin turns. All of this is on full display in Maria, Maria . . . this is transporting work . . . Sprawling magical realistic stories with a moral bent." -- Kirkus Reviews"Purveying characters (both women and animals) with otherwordly powers, Rubio steps across the thin border between life and a dangerous beyond . . . A vividly accomplished debut." -- Barbara Hoffert - Library Journal"Mysticism and imagination run wild in Rubio’s debut collection, which showcases glittering prose and a fearless approach to form and imagery . . . these 10 tales defy categorization and blur genre boundaries . . . Rubio’s talent is evident, and there’s such a range of tones and genres on offer that any reader will find at least something to enjoy." -- Publishers Weekly
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Johns Hopkins University Press Who Will Hear Your Secrets
Book SynopsisA collection of stories in which a federal agent quits his job after his warning about a terrorist attack goes unheeded; a woman fleeing her abusive lover realizes her safety will forever be out of reach; and, an American visitor to Ireland learns that he will always be too much of an outsider to understand the country's politics and cultures.Trade ReviewEach story is expertly constructed, offering the comforts of a piece of handcrafted furniture. -- Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal For decades, Robley Wilson has been one of our finest short story writers; this volume of sly, subtle tales will show you why. Reader's Digest A masterful writer knowledgeable of his characters' deepest needs and sympathetic to their plight. -- Anthony Bukoski Minneapolis Star Tribune Pitch-perfect. Publishers Weekly
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Johns Hopkins University Press Dont Think
Book SynopsisTogether, the nine stories in Don't Think illuminate the astonishing fact of existence itself while justifying the Philadelphia Inquirer's assessment that Burgin is one of America's most distinctive storytellers.Trade ReviewRichard Burgin's Don't Think is a superb book, a remarkable addition to his substantial, impressive oeuvre. The dark, sometimes bizarre, sensibility of his earlier work that once made Joyce Carol Oates compare him to Poe, remains, but it is joined in this volume with a more hopeful side. Together these joined forces make Burgin one of best and most eloquent writers of the American short story... Don't Think is another first-rate book on the shelf devoted to Richard Burgin's writing: works that have won him a reputation for masterful, darkly comic forays into contemporary angst and the human condition, ameliorated by acts of kindness and honest love. His is an extraordinary, invaluable voice in contemporary fiction. -- Miriam Kotzin Per Contra In the best short-story collections, each successive story builds upon the previous, making the sum greater than the parts. Five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin's ninth short-story collection Don't Think succeeds easily in that regard, with tight, thematic links between stories and an impressive tonal range that span from dark, depressing-even gross-to wildly humorous, subtle, and human. Brooklyn Rail Burgin writes crisp and intelligent dialogue and description, and he handles disconcerting situations with deadpan ease... His characters-alone, alienated, desolate, and desperate-come alive on the page. Publishers Weekly Burgin is the poet laureate of loneliness and longing, writing economically, with humor and exquisite attention to interior monologues. Philadelphia Inquirer Richard Burgin continues to have his finger on the pulse of modern experience as do few others. Broad Street Review It's not surprising that Burgin has won five Pushcart Prizes for his short stories. St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Richard Burgin's stories, as this latest collection demonstrates, really aren't like anybody else's... Burgin has an uncanny knack for limning how the mind, its thoughts and memories and dreams, shapes experience and identity, and he does it in prose best described as soft-spoken lyricism. It is hardly going out on a limb to say that many of these stories will become classics and that someone someday will coin the adjective Burginesque." Philadelphia Inquirer Burgin gives the reader a lot of darkness, but when he peels it back, what comes into the light is central to what got us reading in the fi rst place, keeps us reading as we grow older, and requires us to have reading in our lives for them to feel complete. You can't really task a collection of short fi ction with more. Rain Taxi Review of Books Richard Burgin's Don't Think is a quiet masterpiece. It tells us that the bonds we form with people who we find or who find us are what create meaning in our lives, and the memories we carry constantly shape and revise our reality. American Microreviews and Interviews Savagely honest and deeply affecting, it ranks among Burgin's best. American Book ReviewTable of ContentsDon't ThinkOf Course He Wanted to Be RememberedUncle RayThe ChillThe OfferingThe House VisitorV.I.N.OlympiaThe IntruderAcknowledgments
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