Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6597&N=3+5189+4294944330 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1171242 Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this years collection boasts a satisfying chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, Americas oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of enduring quality (Chicago Tribune) this year. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=809917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298375 This varied sampler of the American literary scene revels in lifes little absurdities, captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimately shares subtle insight and compassion. In The View from Castle Rock, the short story master Alice Munro imagines a fictional account of her Scottish ancestors immigration to Canada in 1818. Nathan Englanders case of young characters in How We Avenged the Blums confronts a bully dubbed The Anti-Semite to both comic and tragic ends. In Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy takes a forceful, heart-wrenching look at a young mans choices when his father - along with most of the men in his small town - is deployed to Iraq. Yiyun Lis After a Life reveals secrets, hidden shame, and cultural change in modern China. And in Tatooizm, Kevin Moffett weaves a story full of humor and humanity about a young couples relationship that has run its course.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682765 A compilation of 50 years worth of entertaining stories, articles, humor, cartoons and other special features from the pages of Playboy magazine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642109 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603186 Jane Smiley has selected a new crop of promising stories, continuing the Best New American Voices series tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers. These pieces are chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted by writing programs, such as the Iowa Writers Workshop and Johns Hopkins, and by summer conferences, including Sewanee and Bread Loaf. Delve into this collection to discover both the riches of writers workshops and tomorrows literary stars.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=532703 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=485784 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539105 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479827 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=425428 Black Like Us chronicles 100 years of the African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual literary tradition. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century writings, it charts the evolution of black lesbian and gay fiction into the Harlem Renaissance and the later postwar era. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430899 Story for story, readers cant beat The Best American Short Stories series . . . Each year it offers the opportunity to dive into the current trends and fresh voices that define the modern American short story (Chicago Tribune). This years most beloved short fiction anthology is edited by the best-selling novelist Sue Miller, author of While I Was Gone, and, most recently, The World Below. The volume includes stories by Edwidge Danticat, Jill McCorkle, E. L. Doctorow, Arthur Miller, and Akhil Sharma, among others. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433442 With pieces culled from more than 100 prestigious writing programs around the country and Canada, including the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Conference, this volume showcases a remarkable array of talent--and offers the excitement of discovering a new generation of writers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418441 Since its first issue in 1933, Esquire has been a showcase for up-and-coming literary superstars. Gleaned from its pages, this anthology features stories by well-known writers dating from the early 1930s through the late 1990s, from Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway to Annie Proulx and Elizabeth McCracken. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529375 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=395776 Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred and twenty 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. A wonderfully diverse collection, this years Best American Short Stories travels from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from the Jersey shore to Wales, considering the biggest issues: love, war, health, success. Edited by author Barbara Kingsolver, The Best American Short Stories 2001 includes selections by Rick Moody, Ha Jin, Alice Munro, John Updike, and others. Highlighting exciting new voices as well as established masters of the form, this years collection is a testament to the good health of contemporary short fiction in this country.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283799 In choosing this years best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she once loved as a child, when she was addicted to fairy tales. The result is a vibrant collection in which truth and fantasy coexist in new works by writers such as Rick Bass, Annie Proulx, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Junot Diaz, and Pain Houston, as well as in startlingly accomplished stories by new writers. Here, in the last volume of the century; we see just how varied and far-reaching the American short story has become. In stories set in India, Africa, and the American West, in the wilds of nineteenth-century Canada, the Chinese provinces, and twentieth-century suburban American, this yearss contributors explore themes both personal and universal, both contemporary and timeless. The Best American Short Stories is the only volume that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished bestselling author. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=289752 Sure to become the contemporary canon, this remarkable collection of 50 stories presents a diversity of voices, themes, and writing styles that is unique among contemporary short-fiction anthologies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=288571 The stories in Growing Up Ethnic in America depict a variety of experiences, including poignant but failed attempts at conformity and the alienation often felt by ethnic Americans. But they also tell of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities, and the realization that it is often the difference from the norm that helps them to succeed. In pieces that suggest that what constitutes American identity is far from settled, these writers testify to the profound effect ethnic differences have on personal and communal understandings of America, and illustrate the diversity that is the source of the nations great discord and infinite promise.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=369061 An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharmas Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gatreauxs Wedding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=287420 The Portable American Realism Reader collects forty-seven of the best stories published in the United States between 1865 and 1918 - the most celebrated period of short fiction in American literary history. This great flowering of talent includes such classic stories as Mark Twains Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, Bret Hartes The Luck of Roaring Camp, Ambrose Bierces An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper, and Henry Jamess The Beast in the Jungle. The volumes editors have also expanded the sweep of American Realism to embrace works by less well known African-American, Asian-American, and Native-American writers. In addition, there is a special emphasis on the contributions of women writers to this crucial period of American letters, with stories by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Austin, among others.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816874 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=163703 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, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuses on a particular subject - slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands of different writers, these themes provide a wealth and variety of human experience. The stories are more than testimonies of the long battle for survival. From a young womans struggles with her barren faith in Alice Walkers lyrical The Diary of an African Nun to an innocent mans involvement in a horrifying act of violence in Ann Petrys The Witness, they are, as Naylor states in her introduction, examples of affirmation: of memory, of history, of family, of being. They are stories for all of us at the beginning: of mankind as a species; of America as a nation; of the African-American as a full citizen.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=80054 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=211533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=106015 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=144851 According to Cherokee legend, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence to the people. For the first time, Spider Womans Granddaughters brings to light the original American. It is a unique addition to feminist literatire--and a treasure trove for the ever-increasing audience for Native American works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=126229 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58013 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168368