Ladies and Gentlemen
10 best books like Ladies and Gentlemen (Adam Ross): You Think That's Bad, This Is Not Your City, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, Women and Other Animals: Stories, Pluto, Animal Lover, How This Night Is Different: Stories, The Angel on the Roof, Orientation: And Other Stories, We Others: New and Selected Stories, Someday This Will Be Funny
| Author | Jim Shepard |
| ISBN | 0307594823 |
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...
| Author | Caitlin Horrocks |
| ISBN | 1932511911 |
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...
| Author | Charles Baxter |
| ISBN | 0307379213 |
Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection—Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers—was further confirmation of his mastery: his...
| Author | Bonnie Jo Campbell |
| ISBN | 0743203070 |
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,...
| Author | Laren Stover |
| ISBN | 0060926279 |
Meet the charming Pluto Hellbender Gerome, an ASPCA dog-walker, copyeditor of a pancreatic medical journal, and spin art artist. He is obsessed with cleanliness, his health, astrology, animals and whether or not they're being treated humanely, and with Wanda, a beautiful redhead and fellow dog-walker...
| Author | Elisa Albert |
| ISBN | 0743291271 |
Elisa Albert's debut story collection marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in fiction. In "How This Night Is Different," Albert boldly illuminates the struggles of young, disaffected Jews to find spiritual fulfillment. With wit and wisdom, she confronts themes -- self-deprecation,...
| Author | Russell Banks |
| ISBN | 0060931256 |
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,...
| Author | Daniel Orozco |
| ISBN | 0865478538 |
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,...
| Author | Steven Millhauser |
| ISBN | 0307595900 |
“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...
| Author | Lynne Tillman |
| ISBN | 1935869000 |
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...
| 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,...
| Author | Adam Levin |
| ISBN | 1936365219 |
Adam Levin’s debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of “death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth” (Rolling Stone).
Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds,...
Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories
| Author | Kevin Moffett |
| ISBN | 0062069225 |
A dazzling new story collection from brilliant, young, award-winning writer Kevin Moffett, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events illuminates the intimate experiences of characters caught between aspiration and achievement, uncertainty and illumination, inertia and discovery, the...
| Author | Lucia Perillo |
| ISBN | 0393083535 |
Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.
An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0307266273 |
From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat” —The New York Times), eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying...
| Author | Marisa Silver |
| ISBN | 1416590293 |
Eight indelible stories that mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself.
Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers with her critically acclaimed The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist), praised by Richard Russo as “a...
| Author | Amber Dermont |
| ISBN | 0312642814 |
A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea
Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In “Lyndon,” a daughter visits presidential landmarks...
The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy
| Author | James Purdy |
| ISBN | 0871406691 |
The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy’s short stories—fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives—have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was unclassifiable,...
Faithless: Tales of Transgression
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060933577 |
An emotional and somewhat depraved read, I've had an exceptionally difficult time putting my feelings about this anthology into words. I've done my best to try and come back to this review all articulate and concise. But...I...just can't!!
There are a lot of stories in this collection and...
| Author | Richard Lange |
| ISBN | 0316017361 |
I am a white man. I am almost certainly under-employed. I once had success with women, but I have now fallen into loneliness. I often fantasize about sleeping with women I will never approach. If I don't do this, I sleep with prostitutes. In any case, I have women problems. My friends aren't really...
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0679743324 |
As If
Many of the reviews of this fantastic collection of short stories mention the following comment by Peter Carey:
"The trouble with academics is that they try too hard to understand these stories ....
"They should relax. The stories are only about what they seem to be about....
Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological...
| Author | Justin Taylor |
| ISBN | 0061881813 |
Justin Taylor's crystalline, spare, and oddly moving prose cuts to the quick. His characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious but often tragic impasses with reality: a high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic, a fast-food employee...
