Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner
10 best books like Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner (Ring Lardner): Where the Rivers Flow North, Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967, Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, The Best American Short Stories 2009, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1), Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge, Who I Was Supposed to Be, Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present, The Best of Larry Niven
Where the Rivers Flow North
| Author | Howard Frank Mosher |
| ISBN | 1584653639 |
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal; “the novella is brilliantly done.” That novella, the title story of the collection, was also made into a feature film starring Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox. These six stories,...
Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 0316380318 |
Long before we even heard of great contemporary writers we get amazing, touching, slice-of-life and memoirs such as Alice Walker's "To Hell With Dying", Mary Elizabeth Vroman's "See How They Run" to Kristin Hunter's "An Interesting Social Study".
Here, Hughes showcases shorts from some...
| Author | Vance Randolph |
| ISBN | 0252013646 |
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman,...
| Author | Alice Sebold |
| ISBN | 0618792252 |
Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0765334607 |
Master of the macabre David Lubar turns his attention to dark and twisted tales for teens with Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
A group of high school girls takes revenge on their sadistic gym teacher in the most fitting way possible. Two stowaways find themselves on a ship...
| Author | Susan Perabo |
| ISBN | 0743290372 |
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns;...
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
| ISBN | 0684868830 |
The Real Western Canon
Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.
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| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 1596063319 |
These stories demonstrate Niven's tremendous range and literary prowess in the fields of SF, fantasy, nonfiction, and mystery. This spellbinding collection is a must for fans of classic SF. - Publishers Weekly
With the publication of his first story, 'The Coldest Place', in 1964 Larry Niven...
| Author | Shann Ray |
| ISBN | 1555975887 |
Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a muscular debut that reconfigures the American West
The American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washedup basketball players,...
Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.
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| Author | Elizabeth Spencer |
| ISBN | 0871406810 |
On the release of her first novel in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer was immediately championed by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty, setting off a remarkable career as one of the great literary voices of the American South. Her career, now spanning seven decades, continues here with nine new stories. In...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 0544105508 |
Some of these stories are terrific ....
but there is a wide variety of styles....short stories, poetry, tattoo graphic series, essays, and articles
Depressing...tragic -a laughter. In other words 'a mixed bag'.
Given I paid a penny for this collection plus $3.99 for shipping....I've...
| Author | Poe Ballantine |
| ISBN | 0976631199 |
Poe Ballantine’s second collection of personal essays follows, and expands on, his acclaimed Things I Like About America. Ballantine’s world is a crazy quilt of odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer, rendered in the author’s by turns absurd and poignant voice....
