FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"Another exciting change of pace from the protean Donoghue."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"For those who have an affinity for metaphysical fiction written with a surgeon's precision, this collection will spur readers to seek out everything else by its author."
Beneath the surface placidity of Swiss life, undercurrents of spiritual turmoil and existential despair charge this powerful collection of provocative stories.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Whether recent or from his earliest period, these pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn't "fit the profile of the neighborhood.""
Sterling collection of short stories by Alexie (
Ten Little Indians, 2003, etc.), a master of the form.
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FICTION
Released: June 26, 2012
"A terrific introduction to Serber's gifts, and hopefully a preview of good things to come."
A debut collection of elegant and largely intertwined short stories about mothers and daughters.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"A unique collection, proving that Evenson is as deft at moving between genres as a ghost passing through a wall. "
Twenty-five slices of the grotesque, the macabre and beyond from a gifted literary novelist with an eye for all things horrible.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 2, 2012
"Gloriously vivid stories about the human heart."
Ten stories, carefully and lovingly constructed, about Western characters as prickly as barbed wire.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2012
"Although her material can be macabre, mawkish and deeply unsettling, Oates' hypnotic prose ensures that readers will be unable to look away."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2012
"Fancher's writing is long on whimsy but short on humor."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 11, 2012
"Not as ambitious as Díaz's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), but sharply observed and morally challenging."
From the author of
Drown (1996), more tales of Dominican life in the cold, unwelcoming United States.
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2012
"At every turn, James' prose is crisp, observant and carefully controlled; unlike the narrator of "Escape Key," who grows increasingly aware of his fiction's shortcomings, James projects a deep emotional intelligence."
A well-turned set of stories defined by emotional and physical separation, particularly in the Indian-American diaspora.
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FICTION
Released: April 9, 2012
"Skibsrud's economical, poetically aware stories reveal a writer comfortable with the form, and one who requires her readers to think."
Connection and enlightenment are sought and occasionally experienced in a first collection from Canadian poet and Giller Prize–winning novelist Skibsrud (The Sentimentalists, 2011).
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FICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"An inventive, impressive and witty book."
FICTION
Released: May 7, 2012
"Emotionally unflinching stories of considerable power, wonder and humor."
A prize-winning poet (and MacArthur Fellow grant recipient) extends her literary mastery with a debut story collection.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Stern weaves an intricate and clever web of stories steeped in both sacred and mundane Jewish culture."
"Mischief" is indeed the operative term here, for Stern's characters are subtle, slyly humorous and at times poignant.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"Occasionally just fey, elsewhere convincingly unworldly, these stories express a distinctive voice and a gently beguiling imagination."
A dozen strange and original stories inject the magical, sinister and downright peculiar into the everyday.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"A tissue-box-worthy collection of animal tales."
For fans of man's best friend, a collection of insightful, moving and often unforgiving stories about dogs, cats and their people.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 14, 2012
"Ford finds his way into scenarios infernal, haunted or merely strange, and keeps his wits about him on the journey."
The fourth collection of stories from Ford includes examples of fantasy, science fiction, neo-steampunk, noir and a few genre-busting curiosities.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"It's the tense atmospheres that Aronson creates, and her empathy for her characters, that make this a promising debut."
First-time author Aronson calls on her experience as a professor of medicine for this collection of short stories, which take place in and around a San Francisco hospital. But the stories are less concerned with medical details than with the inner lives of the characters and the psychological toll that health issues take on caregivers, patients and their families.
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FICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"More like bits and sketches than stories, from a writer who is often very funny and inventive, and occasionally profound."
FICTION
Released: April 4, 2012
"Though some of the stories work well on their own, the collection will mainly interest those already very familiar with the author and his novels."
This slim collection of early, experimental stories represents a footnote on the career of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died in 2010.
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