The Collected Stories

7 best books like The Collected Stories (Lorrie Moore): Girl, Woman, Other, The Topeka School, Pond, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Deadkidsongs, Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, Things I Don't Want to Know

Girl, Woman, Other
AuthorBernardine Evaristo
ISBN0241364906
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
The Topeka School
AuthorBen Lerner
ISBN0374277788
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right

Adam Gordon...
Pond
AuthorClaire-Louise Bennett
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted...
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
AuthorSarah Manguso
ISBN1555977030
“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker

In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with...
AuthorToby Litt
ISBN0140285784
With his novels Corpsing and Beatniks, young Brit Lit gunslinger Toby Litt showed he had mastered the essentials of the trendy bestseller. With this poignant, odd, confusing, moving, heartfelt, troubling book he's tried to do an even trickier thing: extend his range and readership upmarket. The...
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
AuthorEula Biss
ISBN1555975186
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies....
Things I Don't Want to Know
AuthorDeborah Levy
ISBN1907903631
Marketed as a feminist response to Orwell’s “Why I Write,” Things I Don’t Want to Know tracks how a soft-spoken girl became a prolific writer. Across four fast-moving sections, novelist Deborah Levy recounts her childhood spent in South Africa at the height of apartheid, with her father incarcerated...
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