The Dead Fish Museum

Author	Cesare Pavese
ISBN	0720611199

Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...

Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
ISBN	1594488258

Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents...

Author	Megan Mayhew Bergman
ISBN	1451643357

A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.

From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from...

Author	Alice Munro
ISBN	0307269760

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired...

Author	Dan Chaon
ISBN	0345441613

In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling...

Author	Italo Calvino
ISBN	0156572044

Calvino has been on my radar for a long time, and I think I made a good choice in picking Marcovaldo for a first try. This is a small book, but it has a big heart. The stories are set in the poverty ridden early 1950's and follow up to the relative abundance of the 1960's. The immediate connections that spring...

Author	Mark Richard
ISBN	0385415443

If you read this in the wrong head-space, it's like listening to a drunk person tell a story while you're sober. The monologue (as it becomes) can run on-n-on and before you know it you're like "wait, what?" This happened to me a couple of times while reading this, where I was distracted by some sort of whatever,...

Author	Jim Shepard
ISBN	1400033497

I’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, re-closing...

Author	Teresa Radice
ISBN	8865432993

Nell'estate del 1807, una nave della marina di Sua Maestà recupera al largo del Siam un giovane naufrago, Abel, che di sé ricorda soltanto il nome. Diventa ben presto amico del primo ufficiale, facente funzioni di capitano perché il comandante della nave è, a quanto pare, scappato dopo essersi...