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Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
By Peter Orner
Despite their brevity, these short tales make wide leaps of meaning across many worlds.
Dark Lies the Island
Kevin Barry
Unease, violence and darkness run through this short-story collection, the latest work by the award-winning Irish author.
The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
James Purdy
The late author's shorter works, compiled for the first time, reveal a soaring imagination.
Brief Encounters With the Enemy
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Set in a decaying Midwestern town, these stories chronicle the modest hopes of workers stuck in dead-end jobs.
Nine Inches
Tom Perrotta
In this 10-story collection, American suburban angst is given new depth and incisive insight.
Fools
Joan Silber
These intertwining stories are a tour of time and place.
Archangel
Andrea Barrett
The triumph of discovery and the sense of loss that scientific progress can bring are explored in this new collection of short stories.
Siege 13
Tamas Dobozy
A collection of short stories focused on 20th-century Hungarian émigrés and their Canadian-born children.
