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Pieces: A Collection of New Voices

10 best books like Pieces: A Collection of New Voices (Stephen Chbosky): Thin Skin, Dreamworld, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, How the Hula Girl Sings, Brave New Girl, The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Pure Sunshine, Floating, Fake Liar Cheat, Tunnel Vision

Thin Skin
AuthorEmma Forrest
ISBN0743464818
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
Dreamworld
AuthorJane Goldman
ISBN0671787209
When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop on the community's security force, twenty-five-year-old Sylvia Avery toes the company line,...
Don't Sleep With Your Drummer
AuthorJen Sincero
ISBN0743453913
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
How the Hula Girl Sings
AuthorJoe Meno
ISBN1888451831
A young ex-con in a small Illinois town. A lonely giant with a haunted past. A beautiful girl with a troubled heart. Strange and darkly magical, How the Hula Girl Sings begins exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends, with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself. Three years later, Luce Lemay,...
Brave New Girl
AuthorLouisa Luna
ISBN0743407865
A fourteen-year-old trying to find her way in the world, Doreen is as much an outcast at school as she is at home. Marginalized by her peers, misunderstood by her parents, and mourning the loss of her older brother who disappeared when she was just a child, Doreen finds solace in her fierce love of music...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
AuthorErnest Hemingway
ISBN0736650695
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro the protagonist perishes of gangrene alone out in the bush, recognizing his failure as a writer: a writer who never had the nerve to write. He dies with stoic acceptance and a view of the famous summit unseen by any alive. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis is...
Pure Sunshine
AuthorBrian James
ISBN0439279895
A spellbinding trip of a novel about three friends breaking apart in their quest to stave off boredom and sameness.

It's not about the drugs. It's not about the girls or the fights or the fading streetlights. It's about two nights that weren't going to be different from the rest but then took a...
Floating
AuthorRobin Troy
ISBN0671024493
Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest
Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway...
Fake Liar Cheat
AuthorTod Goldberg
ISBN0743400569
Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, boring, and even worse, ordinary life. Sucked into the...
Tunnel Vision
AuthorKeith Lowe
ISBN0743423526
Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding...
Dogrun
AuthorArthur Nersesian
ISBN0671775421
mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
AuthorMichael Chabon
ISBN1400078741
Michael Chabon is back with a brand-new collection that reinvigorates the stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning tradition of literary short stories, featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Heidi Julavits,...
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights
AuthorStephen L. Harris
ISBN0073535672
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
The End: A Dusty Futuretake (Dusty, #1.25)
AuthorMaryElizabeth23
4 ★'s

This is basically a little something for those of us that need an epilogue or a happier ending than what we were left with in Delinquents.

I mean, sure, the ending was intriguing but just to be left hanging is so unfair considering everything we went through. And I was thrilled...
The Fever
AuthorWallace Shawn
Winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave, The Fever has been called “a starkly written, harrowing journey into [the] dark night of the soul that is as searing on the page as it is on the stage” (Booklist). While visiting a poverty-stricken country far...
That's Mr. Faggot to You: Further Trials from My Queer Life
AuthorMichael Thomas Ford
ISBN1555834965
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life
AuthorKathryn Harrison
ISBN0812972058
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman’s life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory,...
McSweeney's #19
AuthorDave Eggers
McSweeney s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines. Today, it has grown to be one of the country s best and largest-circulation literary journals, attracting works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann...
For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs
AuthorKathleen Rooney
ISBN1582435456
In this collection on life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. With refreshing honesty she brings the reader into the room as she gets a Brazilian wax,...
Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories
AuthorJerome Stern
ISBN0393314324
Ten years ago, Jerome Stern, director of the writing program at Florida State, initiated the World's Best Short Short Story Contest. Stories were to be about 250 words long; first prize was a check and a crate of oranges.

Two to three thousand stories began to show up annually in Tallahassee,...
Revolution on Canvas, Volume 2: Poetry from the Indie Music Scene
AuthorRich Balling
ISBN0446697877
My review from Chord magazine...

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby suffers the disillusionment of realizing the American Dream only to find himself feeling more hollow and empty than ever before. Jay largely suffers this experience silently and even the denouement-shattering epiphany of...
Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting
AuthorBrett Milano
ISBN0312304277
Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of record collecting. A vinyl junkie is not the person who has a few old 45s shoved in the cuboard from...
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