Category: Anthologies

As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with enthusiasm, pleasure, and purpose. Telling Stories reflects this emphasis, introducing students to a variety of models for their own writing and encouraging them to concentrate on details, revise often, make material their own, experiment with genre, and ultimately find their own voice.Edited by a contemporary master of the storyteller's art "who defines herself primarily as a friend of the text and a friend of the writer," Telling Stories is the perfect anthology for creative writing workshops and fiction classes and a wells...
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The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Avalon Publisher Group : November 2005

Seller ID: 180911

ISBN-13: 9780786716432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can thrill to new stories by Edward D. Hoch, Carolyn Wheat, Jeffrey Deaver, Stuart Kaminsky, Val McDermid, Laura Lippman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Max Allen Collins, in the...
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2019

Seller ID: 142870

ISBN-13: 9781328636096

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction. For Jonathan Lethem, "crime stories are deep species gossip." He writes in his introduction that "they're fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning of tables." The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 has its full share of salacious intrigue, guilt, and retribution. The twists and bad decisions pile up when a thief picks the wrong target or a simple scavenger h...
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (The Best American Series)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : October 2004

Seller ID: 176346

ISBN-13: 9780618341238

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. Dave Eggers, who edits The Best American Nonrequire...
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 (The Best American Series ®)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2009

Seller ID: 157865

ISBN-13: 9780618792252

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary antenna for what is going on in the world (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.

The Best American Short Stories 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2014

Seller ID: 157864

ISBN-13: 9780547868868

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"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 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as "a new classic of American fiction." Egan "possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart" (New York Times Book Review).
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The Best American Short Stories 2015

Price: $8.97

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2015

Seller ID: 103954

ISBN-13: 9780547939414

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories,
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The Best American Short Stories 2017

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2017

Seller ID: 157866

ISBN-13: 9780544582903

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 a subma...
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The Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1967: A ten-year anthology of America's leading literary magazine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Grove Press, 1968 : January 1968

Seller ID: 185487

ISBN: B000NX1ZNK

Binding: Hardcover

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The Outlaw Bible of American Essays

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Basic Books : October 2006

Seller ID: 145554

ISBN-13: 9781560259350

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Like its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in American lives and letters. A raucous eruption of language and a showcase for the best essayists of our time, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays chronicles American history and measures the boundlessness of dissident thought.
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The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories

Price: $9.48

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : December 1997

Seller ID: 111818

ISBN-13: 9780192880390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It is unusual for a creative literature to be so much younger than its language, and the story of the development of Hebrew fiction is no less fascinating than the stories that embody it in The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories. From a narrative whose concerns were predominantly historical and religious, Hebrew fiction has grown to embrace the modern world and to deal with subjects such as daily life in a small Jewish town, intellectual disillusionment, and the huge political changes with which Jewish writers have had to come to terms following the establishment of the State of Israel. War i...
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Vintage : September 1994

Seller ID: 160905

ISBN-13: 9780679745136

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 ...
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Timothy Mcsweeneys at War for the Foreseeable Future and Hes Never Been so Scared

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Price: $7.50

Publisher: Pub Group West : October 2004

Seller ID: 77175

ISBN-13: 9781932416121

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster that could totally mess up life as we know it. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C. Boyle, Susan Straight, Jim Shepard, Wells Tower, Jessica Anthony, Chris Bachelder, and approximately seven other good people. At least one of these stories contains the following paragraph: "I ...
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The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 3

By: Anderson, Stevens W.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Compact Classics Inc : November 1994

Seller ID: 3364

ISBN-13: 9781880184264

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Great American Bathroom Book had its beginnings on a cross-country flight, as Lan England started wishing he had a short summary of every classic he'd heard about but didn't have time to read.Lan decided he wasn't the only person who felt this way. He hired Stevens Anderson, an editor, who hired college professors and other bookworms who loved to read. The result was the The Great American Bathroom Book, Vol I, a collection of 130 2-page summaries from great books of all genres, from Don Quixote to The Road Less Traveled. Volume I also features 90 research overviews on subjects like "Putti...
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (The Best American Series)

By: Andes, Tom, S., Peter Beagle, L., K. Cook, DeYoung, Jason, Ford, Kathleen, Goolsby, Jesse, Gaitskill, Mary, J., Thomas Rice

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2012

Seller ID: 180335

ISBN-13: 9780547553986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Best American Series(R)First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 includes Peter S. Beagle, Kathleen Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Lou Manfredo, Tho...
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Category: Anthologies