Best Postmodern Short Stories - April 2024

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEH13C
• ASIN: B000SEH13C
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

Believers: A Novella and Stories

With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary lives while uncovering their bedrock of passion, madness, levity and grief.

• ASIN: 0679776532
• ASIN: 0679776532
• ISBN: 0679776532
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEGUDE
• ASIN: B000SEGUDE
• Manufacturer: Random House

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (LOA #195): Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Cathedral / stories ... / other stories (Library of America)

Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars of a new ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530461
• ASIN: 1598530461
• ISBN: 1598530461
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

A Visit from the Goon Squad

• ASIN: B0036S4C6G
• ASIN: B0036S4C6G
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction

Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge, both of the history of science fiction narrative from its earliest origins, and of cultural theory and philosophy, Bukatman redefines the nature of human identity in the Information Age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary theories of the p... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0822313405
• ASIN: 0822313405
• ISBN: 0822313405
• Brand: Brand: Duke University Press
• Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

White Noise

• ASIN: B001R11CAI
• ASIN: B001R11CAI
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction

The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form. Artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, multinational machinations, frenetic bursts of prose, collisions of style, celebrations of texture: although emerging largely from science fiction, these features of cyberpunk writing are, as this volume makes clear, integrally r... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0822311682
• ASIN: 0822311682
• ISBN: 0822311682
• Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
• Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

• ASIN: B002UZ5JQ8
• ASIN: B002UZ5JQ8
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.For more than seventy ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437395
• ASIN: 0142437395
• ISBN: 0142437395
• Brand: Penguin Classics
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

World War I: A History From Beginning to End

World War I* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.World War I, or the Great War, was believed to be “the war to end all wars.” Because of the incredible extent of destruction and the staggering number of wounded and dead, even those who lived through it could scarcely comprehend its horror. Beginning in 1914, alliances between powerful nations soon plunged the world into a global conflict. Fighting—including miserable trench warfare—broke out in practically every corner of Europe and spr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077PFKWCQ
• ASIN: B077PFKWCQ

Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works

“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron”“Who Am I This Time?” “Welc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333501
• ASIN: 0385333501
• ISBN: 0385333501
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press

The Train to Calais (COMMANDO: Short Bursts Book 1)

This is a Short Story of approximately 8,400 words...June, 1941. The French partisan Andre Bouchard - known as "The Butcher of Calais" for his bloody crusade against the Nazis - leads a desperate band of resistance fighters to strike a blow against the occupying German army. Their mission: derail a train traveling to Calais carrying German troops and their supplies, then kill every living soul on board.Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the fate of an innocent village boy becomes entangled with Bouchard's plot. Will he risk the success of the mission to save the boy, or will t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009Z5UGXM
• ASIN: B009Z5UGXM
• Manufacturer: Post Modern Pulp Books

2666: A Novel

• ASIN: B00D0K3FQI
• ASIN: B00D0K3FQI
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Dark Dark: Stories

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus“Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky.” ―Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"A feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it’s the most evocative, impressive collection I’ve read this year." ―Daniel Johnson, The Paris ReviewFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories, The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge―girls turning in... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374282137
• ASIN: 0374282137
• ISBN: 0374282137
• Manufacturer: FSG Originals

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2018

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

• UPC: 746152764

The Best American Short Stories 2005

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

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2018

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

• UPC: 616290935

Best Short Stories : A Dual-Language Book

Five great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an

• UPC: 424780
• Rating: 5.0