Best Modern American Writers - April 2024

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey Collection)

• ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
• ASIN: B01IA9AOLM
• Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 054458290X
• ASIN: 054458290X
• ISBN: 054458290X
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

• ASIN: B00KQZY19A
• ASIN: B00KQZY19A
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Great Short Stories by African-American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions)

Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," Charles W. Chesnutt's "Uncle Wellington’s Wives," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Scapegoat." Other stories include "Becky" by Jean Toomer; "Afternoon" by Ralph Ellison; Langston Hughes's "Feet Live Their Own Life"; and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W.... [Read More]

• ASIN: 048647139X
• UPC: 800759471393
• ASIN: 048647139X
• ISBN: 9780486471396
• Brand: Blaisdell, Bob (EDT)
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)

The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501127802
• ASIN: 1501127802
• ISBN: 1501127802
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

• ASIN: B00BAXFECK
• ASIN: B00BAXFECK
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it’s the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson’s “Shiloh,” or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus’s “The Fat Girl,” the 36 works included her probe issues that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440204232
• ASIN: 0440204232
• ISBN: 0440204232
• Brand: 2049145481
• Manufacturer: Dell

Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

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]

• ASIN: 0544582942
• ASIN: 0544582942
• ISBN: 0544582942
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

• ASIN: B079RLPFG7
• ASIN: B079RLPFG7
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Best American Essays 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

"Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA,” writes guest editor Leslie Jamison in her introduction. From the Iraqi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544817338
• ASIN: 0544817338
• ISBN: 0544817338
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables. Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 sel... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008TVEFSK
• ASIN: B008TVEFSK
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Lord of the Flies

• ASIN: B000OCXIRG
• ASIN: B000OCXIRG
• ISBN: 0399501487
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.  

• ASIN: 0544582896
• ASIN: 0544582896
• ISBN: 0544582896
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Wedding Shop

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes The Wedding Shop.“I adored The Wedding Shop! Rachel Hauck has created a tender, nostalgic story, weaving together two pairs of star-crossed lovers from the present and the past with the magical space that connects them. So full of heart and heartache and redemption, this book is one you’ll read long into the night, until the characters become your friends, and Heart’s Bend, Tennessee, your second hometown.” —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling authorTwo women separated by decades. Both set out to help oth... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01863JMHE
• ASIN: B01863JMHE
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

Barack Obama Books: Barack Obama Adult Coloring Book: One of the Best American Presidents of All Time and Chill Politician, Acclaimed Lawyer and Legendary Writer Inspired Adult Coloring Book (Paperbac

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the

• UPC: 779864209

The New New Journalism : Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

A collection of interviews and dialogues with eighteen leading nonfiction writers sheds new light on the ways in which the authors perfect their craft, as well as how they conduct interviews, gather information, and decide

• UPC: 2699693
• Rating: 4.0

This Is Not Chick Lit : Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers

A celebration of some of America's finest contemporaary, provocative writers, featuring new short stories by Francince Prose, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Jennifer Egan. This is not Chick Lit is a much needed reminder that, for even

• UPC: 4935440
• Rating: 3.0

American Fiction, Volume Eight: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (Paperback)

Make Yourself Happy. . . Read a Good

• UPC: 38540007

Bound to Rise (1873). by : Horatio Alger: Horatio Alger Jr. ( January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) Was a Prolific 19th-Century American Writer, Best Known for His Many Young Adult Novels.

Bound to Rise (1873). by: Horatio Alger: Horatio Alger Jr. ( January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) Was a Prolific 19th-Century American Writer,

• UPC: 245785062

Divinity Catalogue. a Catalogue of a Very Large and Valuable Collection Books, Consisting Wholly of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History, and of the Best Antient and Modern Writers, in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French and English

Divinity Catalogue. a Catalogue of a Very Large and

• UPC: 575387915

The American Lady's And Gentleman's Modern Letter Writer, Relative To Business, Duty, Love, And Marriage

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 647910202

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant; Being a Collection of Select Pieces from Our Best Modern Writers : ... Particularly Adapted for the Use of Our Eminent Schools

Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant; Being a Collection of Select Pieces from Our Best Modern

• UPC: 400289598

The Young Gentleman and Ladies Monitor, Being a Collection of Select Pieces from Our Best Modern Writers : Adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies. by Hamilton Moore, Esq. ...

The Young Gentleman and Ladies Monitor, Being a Collection of Select Pieces from Our Best Modern

• UPC: 341597717