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The Pushcart book of short stories : the best short stories from a quarter-century of the Pushcart prize / by Henderson, Bill,1941-(CARDINAL)723459;

Subjects: Short stories.; Short stories, American;

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American fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny from the 1940s to now / by Straub, Peter,1943-2022.(CARDINAL)721249;

Includes bibliographical references.Presents a diverse volume of short tales by leading genre authors from the latter half of the twentieth century that includes entries by such names as Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King.

Subjects: Horror fiction.; Fantasy fiction, American.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.; Horror tales, American.;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8

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The year's best fantasy and horror : eleventh annual collection / by Datlow, Ellen.(CARDINAL)347113; Windling, Terri.(CARDINAL)754587;

Subjects: Horror fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Short stories.; Fantasy poetry.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The Ecco anthology of contemporary American short fiction / by Oates, Joyce Carol,1938-compilerauthor.(DLC)n 78095538; Beha, Christopher R.,compiler.(local)tlcaut16950258845800;

The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie -- Lobster night / Russell Banks -- The hermit's story / Rick Bass -- 1-900 / Richard Bausch -- Poor devil / Charles Baxter -- Lavande / Ann Beattie -- Off / Aimee Bender -- Mercy / Pinckney Benedict -- The love of my life / T.C. Boyle -- The identity club / Richard Burgin -- Son of the wolfman / Michael Chabon -- Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Television / Lydia Davis -- Aurora / Junot Díaz -- A house on the Plains / E.L. Doctorow -- Death of the right fielder / Stuart Dybek -- The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Disaster stamps of Pluto / Louise Erdrich -- Reunion / Richard Ford -- Rêve haitien / Ben Fountain -- The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill -- The paperhanger / William Gay -- City visit / Adam Haslett -- To those of you who missed your connecting flights out of O'Hare / Amy Hempel -- Emergency / Denis Johnson -- Double exposure / Greg Johnson -- Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine / Matthew Klam -- Baboons / Sheila Kohler -- Once in a lifetime / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Some terpsichore / Elizabeth McCracken -- Cowboy / Thomas McGuane -- Sault Ste. Marie / David Means -- Ranch girl / Maile Meloy -- The new automaton theater / Steven Millhauser -- Paper losses / Lorrie Moore -- Stitches / Antonya Nelson -- Landfill / Joyce Carol Oates -- On the rainy river / Tim O'Brien -- The escort / Chuck Palahniuk -- People in Hell just want a drink of water / Annie Proulx -- The red bow / George Saunders -- Leslie and Sam / Douglas Unger -- The brown chest / John Updike -- Incarnations of burned children / David Foster Wallace -- Cinnamon skin / Edmund White -- Who invented the jump shot / John Edgar Wideman -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff.

Subjects: Short stories, American.; American fiction;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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More alive and less lonely : on books and writers / by Lethem, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)342243; Boucher, Christopher,editor.(CARDINAL)349194;

Includes bibliographical references."A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including: impassioned appeals for forgotten writers and overlooked books, razor-sharp essays, and personal accounts of his most extraordinary literary encounters and discoveries. Only Lethem, with his love of cult favorites and the canon alike, can write with equal insight about the stories of modern masters like Lorrie Moore and Salman Rushdie, graphic novelist Chester Brown, science fiction outlier Philip K. Dick, and classic icons like Moby-Dick. Edited by novelist Christopher Boucher (Golden Delicious), More Alive and Less Lonely deserves a place on every serious reader's bookshelf. Lethem's joyful approach to literature will inspire you to dive back into your favorite books and then point you towards what to read next"--

Subjects: Essays.; Literature; Authors and readers.; Books and reading.; Authorship.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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The Book that changed my life : 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them / by Coady, Roxanne J.(CARDINAL)480984; Johannessen, Joy.(CARDINAL)513309;

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady -- Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrisons's The Bluest Eye -- Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants -- Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected Poems -- Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth -- Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The Snake Has All the Lines -- Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare -- Graeme Base on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings -- Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could -- Elizabeth Berg on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye -- Amy Bloom on The Most of P. G. Wodehouse -- Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big -- Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima -- Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and More -- Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1960 -- Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death -- Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo -- Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein¿s Ida -- Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain -- Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger Is Watching -- Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling -- and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Claire Cook on the Nancy Drew Mysteries -- Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars -- Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield -- Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and More -- Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter -- Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own -- Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now -- Carlos Eire on Thomas á Kempis's The Imitation of Christ -- Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August -- Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm -- David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why -- Alice Hoffman on J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye -- Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingways Collected Stories -- Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death -- Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The Only Dance There Is and More -- Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams -- Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible -- Margot Livesey on Charolotte Brontës Jane Eyre -- Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Frank McCourt on Shakespeare's Henry VIII -- Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -- Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series -- Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs' Compromising Positions -- Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man -- Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise -- Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwells So Long, See You Tomorrow -- Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus -- Anne Perry on G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday -- Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and More -- Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange -- Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series -- Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act One -- SARK on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes -- Bernie S. Siegel on William Saroyan's The Human Comedy -- Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! -- Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The Red and the Black -- Jane Stern on John Barth's The End of the Road -- Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue -- Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet -- Paco Underhill on C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series -- Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- Kate Walbert on E. B. White's Charlotte's Web -- Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse -- Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby -- The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors -- Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List -- Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List -- Acknowledgments.Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

Subjects: Authors, American; Authorship.;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15

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Reaching inside : 50 acclaimed authors on 100 unforgettable short stories / by Dubus, Andre,III,1959-editor,writer of supplementary material.(CARDINAL)771834;

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Andre Dubus III -- Ann Patchett. Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; The long-distance runner / Grace Paley -- Mary Gordon. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen ; Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- Madison Smartt Bell. King of the mountain / George Garrett ; Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Meg Wolitzer. Clay / James Joyce ; Yours / Mary Robison -- Dani Shapiro. The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges ; Getting closer / Steven Millhauser -- ZZ Packer. Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek ; A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson -- Ann Beattie. Bliss / Katherine Mansfield ; The prince / Craig Nova -- T. C. Boyle. The brother / Robert Coover ; Sorrows of the flesh / Isabel Huggan -- Anthony Doerr. The garden of Forking Paths / Jorge Luis Borges ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- Gish Jen. Barn burning / William Faulkner ; Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Stewart O'Nan. Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Boys / Rick Moody -- Tobias Wolff. Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Jess Walter. The school / Donald Barthelme ; Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Kirstin Valdez Quade. Love / William Maxwell ; Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro -- Mona Simpson. The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov ; Good people / David Foster Wallace -- Richard Russo. The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; Builders / Richard Yates -- Ron Rash. Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you / William Gay ; A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Anna Quindlen. The gift of the Magi / O. Henry ; Wants / Grace Paley -- Jayne Anne Phillips. A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- Edith Pearlman. A love match / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Peter Orner. Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor ; Welcome / John Edgar Wideman -- Joyce Carol Oates. Battle royal / Ralph Ellison ; A & P / John Updike -- Bich Minh Nguyen. Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; In the American society / Gish Jen -- Antonya Nelson. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Rick Moody. The company of wolves / Angela Carter ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Sue Miller. Spanish in the morning / Edward P. Jones ; The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Colum McCann. A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly / Benedict Kiely ; The love object / Edna O'Brien -- Lois Lowry. A small, good thing / Raymond Carver ; The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dennis Lehane. Why don't you dance / Raymond Carver ; The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Phil Klay. The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; The harvest / Amy Hempel -- Charles Johnson. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Trumpeter / John Gardner -- Pam Houston. Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks ; A note on the type / Ron Carlson -- Ann Hood. Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ; Home / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Paul Harding. The swimmer / John Cheever ; The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever -- Ron Hansen. To build a fire / Jack London ; Master and man / Leo Tolstoy -- Jane Hamilton. Goodbye my brother / John Cheever ; White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Jennifer Haigh. The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant ; Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Lauren Groff. The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol ; The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Robert Boswell. Madagascar / Steven Schwartz ; The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Russell Banks. The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor ; No place for you my love / Eudora Welty -- Julia Glass. A father's story / Andre Dubus ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dagoberto Gilb. La Noche Buena / Tomas Rivera ; Paso del norte / Juan Rulfo -- Stuart Dybek. The grasshopper and bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata ; Birds / John O'Brien -- Emma Donoghue. An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Junot Díaz. Bloodchild / Octavia Butler ; Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Michael Cunningham. Work / Denis Johnson ; The dead / James Joyce -- Lan Samantha Chang. French lesson I: le meurtre / Lydia Davis ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ron Carlson. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Charles Baxter. The corn planting / Sherwood Anderson ; A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Richard Bausch. Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway ; The real thing / Henry James -- Writing prompts from the contributors."An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer, ' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves. Reaching Inside is the far-ranging end result of that invitation. For practitioners of the personal essay and other forms of creative nonfiction, this anthology is fifty examples of how to write about the "I" as well as the 'eye.' For teachers of creative writing, it is fifty inspiring songs of praise for the kind of writing that aspires to art. For professors of literature, it is fifty models for how to think and write critically. And for readers, Reaching Inside is simply a moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays that reach inside us and, as Tolstoy wrote, 'transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.' Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading"--

Subjects: Short stories.; Essays.; Authors, American; Authorship;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The Year's best fantasy and horror. by Datlow, Ellen.(CARDINAL)347113;

Summation 1989: Fantasy / Terri Windling -- Summation 1989: Horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy on the screen / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries -- The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick -- The adder / Fred Chappell -- Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy -- Monsters, tearing off my face / Rory Harper -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- A dirge for Clowntown / James Powell -- Miss Carstairs and the merman / Delia Sherman -- Unknown things / Reginald Bretnor -- Return to the Mutant Rain Forest (poem) / Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier -- Date with a bird / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Them bald-headed snays / Joseph A. Citro -- A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant -- Hanging the fool / Michael Moorcock -- Hansel's finger / Leif enger -- Dogfaerie / Garry Kilworth -- A bird that whistles / Emma Bull -- The walled garden / Lisa Tuttle -- Varicose worms / Scott Baker -- The war with things / Leszek Kolakowski -- The faery flag / Jane Yolen -- Souls tied to the knots on a leather cord / Zhaxi Dawa -- The illusionist / Steven Millhauser -- (to be continued)(Continued) Timeskip / Charles de Lint -- Something passed by / Robert R. McCammon -- Self-portrait mixed media on pavement, 1988 / Dan Daly -- The plane tree and the fountain / Michael de Larrabeiti -- White as sin, now / Tanith Lee -- The power and the passion / Pat Cadigan -- Jack Straw / Midori Snyder -- The sudd / J.N. Williamson -- Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll -- Shave and a haircut, two bites / Dan Simmons -- Cinema Altere / Andrew Stephenson -- Matters of family / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Beauty and the beast: an anniversary (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Find me / Joan Aiken -- Unidentified objects / James P. Blaylock -- Meeting the author / Ramsey Campbell -- The lovers / Gwyneth Jones -- Your skin's Jes's soft 'n purty ... he said (page 243) / Chet Williamson -- Dori Bangs / Bruce Sterling -- The steel valentine / Joe R. Lansdale -- Equilibrium / John Shirley -- Time lapse (poem) / Joe Haldeman -- White noise / Garry Kilworth -- Terrible kisses / Robley Wilson -- Sleepside story / Greg Bear -- Honorable memtions: 1989.

Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Horror tales.; Short stories.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The best of McSweeney's / by Eggers, Dave,editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)344956; Bass, Jordan,editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)611720; McSweeney's (Firm)(CARDINAL)555955;

"A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket.

Subjects: American literature; American literature; Literature;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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