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BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS




Recent Short Story Collections (page 3)


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Cover art for BLACK DAHLIA & WHITE ROSE
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."
Another gallery of grotesquerie from the staggeringly prolific Oates. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE SHAPE OF THE FINAL DOG
FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2012

"Fancher's writing is long on whimsy but short on humor."
Bizarre stories, some bordering on the absurd and others going over the border. Read full book review >
Cover art for DANCING DOGS
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for BLASPHEMY
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. Read full book review >