Best Short Story Writers - April 2024

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive.The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679745130
• ASIN: 0679745130
• ISBN: 0679745130
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

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

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

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library (Hardcover))

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller.  They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.  They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but known throughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of the short sto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679601228
• ASIN: 0679601228
• ISBN: 0679601228
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab ho... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547939418
• ASIN: 0547939418
• ISBN: 0547939418
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best Short Stories of all Time: Volume I

- Including a short biographies of authors This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Henri Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Jack London, Henri Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant and Edgar Allan Poe.

• ASIN: B005USA8FY
• ASIN: B005USA8FY

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

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018

THE ESSENTIAL YEARLY GUIDE TO THE NEWEST VOICES IN SHORT FICTION "A book of gems, each one carrying its own particular clarity and cut, that teaches students of writing how limitless the short story form can be." ―Marie-Helene Bertino, author of 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today’s most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. The characters within these pages include a college dropout dressed up as Hercules at Disney World; a college graduate playing a prostitute in a g... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936787938
• ASIN: 1936787938
• ISBN: 1936787938
• Manufacturer: Catapult

Novel & Short Story Writer's Market 2019: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

THE BEST RESOURCE FOR GETTING YOUR FICTION PUBLISHEDNovel & Short Story Writer's Market 2019 is the only resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 38th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. Each listing includes contact information, submission guidelines, and other essential tips.Novel & Short Story Writer's Market also offers valuable advice to elevate your fiction:Break down the anatomy of a great short story.Learn how to create an antagonistic setting and i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1440354375
• UPC: 035313670787
• ASIN: 1440354375
• ISBN: 9781440354373
• Brand: Writer's Digest Books
• Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

Crafting Novels & Short Stories: The Complete Guide to Writing Great Fiction (Creative Writing Essentials)

Learn How to Create Stories That Captivate Agents, Editors, and Readers Alike!Inside you'll find the tools you need to build strong characters, keep your plots moving, master the art of dialogue, choose the right point of view, and more.This comprehensive book on the art of novel and short story writing is packed with advice and instruction from best-selling authors and writing experts like Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Sims, Hallie Ephron, N.M. Kelby, Heather Sellers, and Donald Maass, plus a foreword by James Scott Bell. You'll learn invaluable skills for mastering every area of the craft:Define an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1599635712
• UPC: 035313655319
• ASIN: 1599635712
• ISBN: 1599635712
• Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction."The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525436588
• ASIN: 0525436588
• ISBN: 0525436588
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present

In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316599239
• ASIN: 0316599239
• ISBN: 0316599239
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

• ASIN: 0316380318
• ASIN: 0316380318
• ISBN: 0316380318
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

The 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: B01N7HZA3K
• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of characte... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• ASIN: B00QPI449E
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Best American Catholic Short Stories: A Sheed & Ward Collection (Paperback)

This volume captures 20 of the best short stories from 13 American Catholic writers over the past 75 years. Spanning most of the 20th century, the stories in this collection deal with many of the

• UPC: 25647209

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

Children of the Night : The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present

In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a

• UPC: 53328607

Best Short Stories from Great Writers - eBook

A collection of some of the best short stories from great writers ranging from Balzac, Chekov, Maupassant to Zola among many others. This special edition edited by Ozdemir brings some of the works of the

• UPC: 441990407

Great Short Short Stories : Quick Reads by Great Writers

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories -- each just six or fewer pages in length -- features popular tales by Kafka, Poe, Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others. Includes

• UPC: 3501017
• Rating: 4.0

Great Short Stories by African-American Writers

A collection of short stories from influential African-American authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica

• UPC: 10850907
• Rating: 5.0

Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers

"An anthology that will explore the birth experience from a wide-ranging group of esteemed writers (including Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and others), with all the force, frankness, humor, and honesty that the

• UPC: 29459397
• Rating: 5.0

Gotham Writers' Workshop Fiction Gallery : Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

A collection of short fiction selected by members of New York's acclaimed creative writing school presents works that range from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," to "A Romantic Weekend by Mary

• UPC: 2547270
• Rating: 5.0

The Journey Prize Stories 28 : The Best of Canada's New Writers

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• UPC: 52610932
• Rating: 3.0

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

Best Short Stories of Negro Writers 1967 1st Ed Ellison Hughes Baldwin Walker

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BEST SHORT STORIES ByNEGRO WRITERS,1967,Hughes,1stEd,DJ

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Best Short Stories by Az Writers (English) Paperback Book Free Shipping!

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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1899 - 1967 9780316380317 | Brand New

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Best Short Stories by Black Writers; The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967,...

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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967 by James Baldwin (English)

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Franklin Library Dreiser, Theodore - Best 14 Short Stories Greatest Writers

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Short Story Writers and Their Work : A Guide to the Best-ExLibrary

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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967 by Langston Hughes

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