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Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

10 best books like Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Charles Baxter): Volt, You Think That's Bad, This Is Not Your City, Death Is Not an Option, Things that Fall from the Sky, The New Yorker Stories, Sourland, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Ladies and Gentlemen, Women and Other Animals: Stories

Volt
AuthorAlan Heathcock
ISBN1555975771
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice

One man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him...
You Think That's Bad
AuthorJim Shepard
ISBN0307594823
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from...
This Is Not Your City
AuthorCaitlin Horrocks
ISBN1932511911
Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in...
Death Is Not an Option
AuthorSuzanne Rivecca
ISBN0393072568
Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...
Things that Fall from the Sky
AuthorKevin Brockmeier
ISBN0375727698
Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.

In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts...
The New Yorker Stories
AuthorAnn Beattie
ISBN1439168741
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters’ drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name...
Sourland
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0061996521
Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. "Sourland"--sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore the power of violence, loss, and grief to shape the psyche as well as the soul--shows us an...
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
AuthorAmy Bloom
ISBN1400063574
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

Propelled by Bloom's dazzling...
Ladies and Gentlemen
AuthorAdam Ross
ISBN0307270718
After his widely celebrated debut, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross now presents a darkly compelling collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.

A hotshot lawyer, burdened by years of guilt and resentment, comes...
Women and Other Animals: Stories
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN0743203070
The stories in this prizewinning debut collection encompass train wrecks, circus acts, river journeys, transspecies transmogrification, and growing up and growing old around the small towns of Michigan. Without glamorizing poverty, Bonnie Jo Campbell details a vision in which shabbiness, beauty,...
A Stranger in this World
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0679763945
Brilliantly sharp, poignant, superbly crafted stories. Beautifully written, swooping deep into his characters as they make bad decisions (mainly - these pieces are about fuck ups). Memorable images make them stick - the trailer on its side where a couple are entertained by a stranger who has just...
Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
AuthorBarry Hannah
ISBN0802119689
Once again, foiled by the inaccuracy and wholesale brutality of a five-tiered rating system. Barry Hannah, based on this collection, got slightly worse - or at least less concerned about the vagaries of plot and the finely tuned sentence - but the first two collections are simply astounding. If I weren't...
The Stories of Richard Bausch
AuthorRichard Bausch
ISBN0060956224
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
The Collected Stories
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0312429894
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
AuthorLydia Peelle
ISBN0061724734
With its quick pace, modern society leaves scant time for us to pause and take a deep breath of fresh air, to watch the clouds move across the sky, or to appreciate the earth and its cycles of birth and death. Once out of the fray -- far from our cubicles and the relentless rat race -- and back into nature, we...
The Angel on the Roof
AuthorRussell Banks
ISBN0060931256
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works,...
God Bless America: Stories
AuthorSteve Almond
ISBN0984592237
This is writing that crackles and pops with energy and pulsating life. It makes you laugh and cry or yell Woah in shock. Steve Almond writes from his gut, and it’s a carnival down there: a poker-playing shrink and his card-shark client (I love the cover of this book; it conveys the originality of the writing);...
The Angel Esmeralda
AuthorDon DeLillo
ISBN1451655843
From one of the greatest writers of our time, a collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American culture.

From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and...
Orientation: And Other Stories
AuthorDaniel Orozco
ISBN0865478538
Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation,...
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
AuthorWilliam Kennedy
ISBN0670022977
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers.

When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba,...
We Others: New and Selected Stories
AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0307595900
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase...
Music Through the Floor
AuthorEric Puchner
ISBN0743270460
With "Music Through the Floor," Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting...
Someday This Will Be Funny
AuthorLynne Tillman
ISBN1935869000
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
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