Medallion Press, August 2014. Trade Paperback. Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images--nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of..... More
Dover Publications, March 2016. Trade Paperback. America's Second City abounds in literary talent, and this anthology spotlights writers associated with Chicago as well as tales that take the Midwestern metropolis as their setting. Contributors include Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, James T. Farrell, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, and many others. George..... More
Delta, October 1993. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Shelby Foote's monumental historical trilogy, "The Civil War: A Narrative," is our window into the day-by-day unfolding of our nation's defining event. Now Foote reveals the deeper human truth behind the battles and speeches through the fiction he has chosen for this vivid..... More
Spring Publications, March 1987. Trade Paperback. Essays by Norman O. Brown, Danilo Dolci, Wolfgang Giegerich, James Hillman, Denise Levertov, Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, David Miller, Mike Perlam, and Mary Watkins. An extraordinary and prescient conference took place at Salva Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1983. The..... More
Persea, April 2022. Paper Back. Including contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. In the Between presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town--all striving to forge..... More
White Pine Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America. "This is so far the best anthology of Latin American women's literature in translation published in this country. Highly recommended."--Choice. As is. Foxing on the edges of the..... More
Oxford University Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better man's estate, they..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2016. Trade Paperback. Since its inception, The Atavist Magazine has been a pioneer of today's longform journalism renaissance. Now, Love and Ruin brings ten of the magazine's most astonishing stories into print for the first time. These writers have taken reporting to the extremes..... More
Algonquin Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. In this ninth volume of "New Stories from the South, " you'll find characters you wish you knew, along with others you'll be glad you don't: a boy who wears his mother's shoes as his father lies dying, a young mother dying of cancer..... More
Southern Illinois University Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Poetry today holds mainstream attention as never before. From community workshops to reading groups, from coffee house poetry slams to small press lit mags, from universities to web 'zines, the world of poetry has become part of our everyday lives. Demonstrating the..... More
Penguin Books, May 2022. Paper Back. A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past..... More
Macmillan Collector's Library, February 2022. Hardcover. A selection of dazzling short stories which celebrate the talent and achievements of nine women writers who, each in their own way, broke new ground through their literary innovation, activism and beliefs. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized..... More
Random House Trade, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming. This Is Not Chick Lit is..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as..... More
MIT Press, March 2022. Paper Back. A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator..... More
Finnish Literature Society, January 1992. Paper Back. An anthology of contemporary Finnish poetry and prose, with texts ranging from 1945 to the present. The work, by 86 authors, reflects the social changes that inform the writing; during the half-century covered, Finland developed from a traditional agrarian society to a post-industrial..... More
Roof Books, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Prentice Hall, January 1999. Hardcover. Library/School binding. Seemingly unread. More
William Morrow & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories from..... More
William Morrow & Company, April 2021. Hardcover. "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories from..... More
William Morrow & Company, April 2022. Paper Back. "Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully." --Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories..... More
Vintage Books, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
MIT Press, March 2022. Paper Back. When a plague wipes out most of the world's male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside. Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of the men on Earth. The..... More
Starcherone Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. 30 Under 30 is an anthology of thirty top young writers publishing fiction today. Editors Blake Butler and Lily Hoang have compiled a collection of thirty stories from these thirty writers--all creating work on the more innovative side of things; a great opportunity for..... More
