Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories

10 best books like Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Ron Rash): Volt, We Live in Water, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories, Love and Other Wounds: Stories, Kentucky Straight: Stories, The Outlaw Album, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories, I Want to Show You More, Selected Stories, News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories

Volt

Author	Alan Heathcock
ISBN	1555975771

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...

We Live in Water

Author	Jess Walter
ISBN	0061926620

We Live in Water is a darkly comic, moving collection of short stories that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This...

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

Author	William Gay
ISBN	0743242920

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent...

Love and Other Wounds: Stories

Author

Jordan Harper

In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart.

A man runs away from his...

Kentucky Straight: Stories

Author

Chris Offutt

Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and literally unmapped. These stories are set in a nameless community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation....

The Outlaw Album

Author	Daniel Woodrell
ISBN	0316057568

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master.

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation - both material and psychological...

Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

Author	Frank Bill
ISBN	0374532885

A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill's southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy's eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell's Missouri Ozarks

Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow into American literature in recent...

I Want to Show You More

Author

Jamie Quatro

Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in I Want to Show You More are about lives stretched between spirituality...

Selected Stories

Author	William Trevor
ISBN	0670022063

A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" ("The New Yorker").
Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the most acclaimed...

News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories

Author	Jennifer Haigh
ISBN	0060889640

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.

Exploring themes of restlessness,...

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

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...

Ladies and Gentlemen

Author	Adam Ross
ISBN	0307270718

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...

Girl Trouble

Author	Holly Goddard Jones
ISBN	0061776300

In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.

A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely woman reflects on her failed marriage...

The UnAmericans

Author	Molly Antopol
ISBN	0393349969

In this auspicious debut, Molly Antopol cuts a wide swath through the fabric of time and place, exploring people from different cultures who are all painfully human in their joys, desires, tragedies, and heartaches. An actor, phased out of Hollywood for his Communist ties during McCarthyism, tries...

O Cavaleiro de Westeros & Outras Histórias

Author	George R.R. Martin
ISBN	9896374163

Cerca de um século antes dos eventos narrados em A Guerra dos Tronos, um jovem escudeiro parte em busca de fama e glória num dos mais famosos torneios de Westeros. Mas o destino prega-lhe uma partida e coloca-o no caminho de um rapaz misterioso que irá mudar a sua vida para sempre. A não perder para os...

A Stranger in this World

Author	Kevin Canty
ISBN	0679763945

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...

We Others: New and Selected Stories

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...

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories

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...

Damage Control: Stories

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 End of California

Author	Steve Yarbrough
ISBN	1400044383

A PEN/Faulkner finalist for Prisoners of War, Steve Yarbrough  returns to the Mississippi Delta—seen through the historical lens of World War II in that novel, and of Jim Crow in his previous, Visible Spirits—but now in the blinding light of contemporary life.

Loring is the sort of town...

American Salvage

Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell

“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...

Signals: New and Selected Stories

Author	Tim Gautreaux
ISBN	0451493044

A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art."

After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The...

Allegheny Front

Author	Matthew Neill Null
ISBN	1941411258

My new review! ALLEGHENY FRONT by Matthew Neill Null http://tinyurl.com/hfaqot4

My first monthly short-story collection review for The Oak Wheel! Since this is National Short Story Month, a few other favorites might appear as well. Sarabande Books and Matthew Neill Null collaborated...

Sweet Nothing

Author	Richard Lange
ISBN	0316327549

In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map.

These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire....