Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... [Read More]
These thirty-nine stories chronicle the gay experience over the course of the last century, beginning with the unarticulated longing of two boys swimming in D.H. Lawrence's "A Poem of Friendship" and ending with the explicit sexual interaction of two boys in a bathtub in A.M. Homes's "The Whiz Kids." In between there is every imaginable kind of gay story written by every imaginable kind of writer—gay and straight, male and female—all illuminating the common ground of the gay male experience and its astonishing diversity. “The book is like a long enjoyable party, at which the celeb... [Read More]
Seth is embarking on a week at the beach with his incredibly attractive best friend, Logan. He's been pining after Logan for a long time, but figures Logan will spend the week chasing as many women as possible. What he doesn't know is that, away from university, Logan has many surprises in store- and Seth may get the opportunity he's always wanted. What happens between two men in a private hotel room at the beach, stays at the beach...or does it?
"We shouldn't be doing this; not here, not at all…I've always been a bit of a loner. And the moment I graduated, I couldn't wait to spend the summer hiking through the nearby woods, far from anybody else. When I found a secret spot near a river, I started coming back to it every night and swimming in it, "au natural," so to speak. I felt comfortable and alone for the first time.That is, until HE showed up; Brody -- the lewd stranger I'd accidentally peeped on one night. I didn't know what he was doing out in the woods by the river, until he started doing some unthinkable and wild things. Sud... [Read More]
Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating lo... [Read More]
“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In “Miss Lora,” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws... [Read More]
“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).
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Travis and Greg grew up together, but once they turned eighteen they went their separate ways. Greg went to college and Travis joined the Navy. But before Travis left, he gave Greg a present he could never forget. For years, Greg hasn't been able to stop thinking about their last day together - even if he hates to admit it. After all, they're best friends and Greg isn't gay. Now that Travis is back home, Greg has noticed some changes to Travis' physique that makes him irresistible. This is Greg's chance to make up for lost time. Will he risk it all for the one thing he shouldn't want?
Some alphas can’t catch a break. Is it ever too late for love?A certified geek with the career to prove it, Malcolm Carlyle has been working on someone else’s dream his whole life. But now that he’s 40, he’s ready to live his own life, but is it too late? Malcom was sure that he’d missed his chance at love, until he meets a sweet omega who he can’t get out of his head. Always the babysitter or the little brother. While his friends are getting married and starting their families, Leo Dyer can only watch from the sidelines. He’s caught every bouquet and held every baby as the event... [Read More]
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The 2017 volume of Best Gay Stories is edited by Joe Okonkwo, winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. This book showcases the many diverse voices writing in gay fiction and creative non-fiction today. In these pages are acclaimed storytellers, including David Barclay Moore, Thomas Kearnes, and Martin Pousson, as well as new voices in the field. Readers will find an emotional array, from loneliness and loss, to whimsy and mischief, to passionate love--a year's worth of trysts and turns from a gay perspective.
A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriousl... [Read More]
I am in love with my best friend. However, I cannot tell her because she is in a relationship; an abusive relationship. I am always there for her due to the fact that she does
The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”—Oscar WildePrepare to skew your view of the world: where jinn in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden
Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011! This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and
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