The Little Disturbances of Man

8 best books like The Little Disturbances of Man (Grace Paley): In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Sing to It: New Stories, Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, Tell Me a Riddle, Shyness and Dignity, Reflections in a Golden Eye

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

Author	Tobias Wolff
ISBN	0880014970

Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff, are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience, a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious...

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Author

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

From the creator and executive producer of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack...

Sing to It: New Stories

Author	Amy Hempel
ISBN	1982109114

“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories

Author	Ellen Gilchrist
ISBN	0316313076

This book was recommended to me last summer by a former teacher who is also an Episcopalian minister. In December, I entered a "Secret Santa" drawing involving alumni of my alma mater (Grinnell College whaaaaat) and, per statistical probability, drew a woman I'd never met (Which is a good thing! This...

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Author	Vivian Gornick
ISBN	0374528586

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...

Tell Me a Riddle

Author	Tillie Olsen
ISBN	0385290101

This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic.  Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into...

Shyness and Dignity

Author	Dag Solstad
ISBN	1555974465

An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations

In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Author	Carson McCullers
ISBN	0618084754

"… in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the...