Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories

7 best books like Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories (Stuart Dybek): Heads of the Colored People, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Bobcat and Other Stories, The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes, The Point and Other Stories, The Emerald Light in the Air, The Dead Fish Museum

Heads of the Colored People

Author	Nafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN	1501167995

Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Author	Danielle Evans
ISBN	1594487693

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...

Bobcat and Other Stories

Author	Rebecca Lee
ISBN	1616201738

Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...

The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

Author	Joan Silber
ISBN	1555975305

Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F....

The Point and Other Stories

Author	Charles D'Ambrosio
ISBN	0316171255

I purchased this book after reading one of the short stories ("Her Real Name") in a fiction anthology. The story was so incredible that I wanted to read everything that I could find by the same author. (I ordered his other book, The Dead Fish Museum, at the same time. I have already read it and reviewed it.)

This...

The Emerald Light in the Air

Author	Donald Antrim
ISBN	0374280932

Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do—bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo—they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers,...

The Dead Fish Museum

Author	Charles D'Ambrosio
ISBN	1400042860

“In the fall, I went for walks and brought home bones. The best bones weren’t on trails—deer and moose don’t die conveniently—and soon I was wandering so far into the woods that I needed a map and compass to find my way home. When winter came and snow blew into the mountains, burying the bones,...