Across the Bridge
10 best books like Across the Bridge (Mavis Gallant): Trust Exercise, Honored Guest, The Machine Stops, The Wall, Injury Time, The Artificial Silk Girl, Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Putney, The Nao of Brown, The Misfit's Manifesto
| Author | Susan Choi |
| ISBN | 1250309883 |
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 1400095522 |
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways–comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders...
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
After being voted one of the best novellas...
| Author | John Lanchester |
| ISBN | 1324001631 |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
| ISBN | 0349116113 |
"He almost took the wrong turning at the next roundabout. Muriel remained silent but pointed a contemptuous finger, at the last moment, in the correct direction"
Its that little clause at the last moment that captures the delight of this odd awkward story. The awkwardness is not of the writing,...
| Author | Irmgard Keun |
| ISBN | 1892746816 |
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature,...
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
SAVE THE CAT!® by Blake Snyder is a popular screenwriting book series and storytelling methodology used by screenwriters, directors, and studio execs across Hollywood. Now, for the first time ever, bestselling author and writing teacher, Jessica Brody, takes the beloved Save the Cat! plotting...
| Author | Sofka Zinovieff |
| ISBN | 0062847597 |
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.
A rising star in the London arts scene of...
| Author | Glyn Dillon |
| ISBN | 1906838429 |
Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who’s hafu (half Japanese, half English), is not well. She’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But that’s not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind;...
Misfit - it's such a literal word. A person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly or a person poorly adapted to a new environment. It's a word typically loaded with shame. A word no one typically tries to own. Until now.
Lidia Yuknavitch is a proud misfit. That wasn't always the case....
