They are a delight to readers, a challenge to writers. The subtitle of this monumental collection refers to the home Lookout Farm that Hemingway owned in Cuba from to That time frame accounts for most of the short fiction, published and unpublished, that followed the major collection issued in , The First Forty-Nine. There are 60 stories in all. Of the 21 not included in the collection, the seven heretofore unpublished pieces will interest readers most. Three are especially good.
Intrinsically readable, the collection is also significant in drawing together much that was unavailable or difficult to access. One anonymous reviewer give us this summary of the stories. In future installments of this series, I will bring you some contemporary short story collections.
If you know of one you would like to see featured here, please leave me a comment about it. Of all of the must-read lists I have done so far, this was probably the easiest, because there are so many amazing contemporary short story collections. Story collections are such a gift: The following list is made up of the first collections that popped into my head. I have read and loved each of them. And I probably have enough titles to do a sequel—stay tuned! There are a LOT of them.
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Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of the short form.
Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. Here, and in the towns beyond, the young live hard and wear the scars…In each story, a local voice delineates the grittiness of post boom Irish society. These are unforgettable characters rendered through silence, humor, and violence. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians.
Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor, mystery, wonder, and startling compassion.
What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter?
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What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice.
Strange himself and the Raven King. Here, in small-town Massachusetts, after more than a decade of boom and bust, everyone is struggling to find their own version of the American dream: Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties—metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts—conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the ravishing universe outside themselves.
In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. An Anthology of Urban Fantasy.
Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen. Science fiction hall of fame. A Celebration of the Short Story: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real. Short Fiction and Illusions. Speaking with the Angel: Stories from Other Places. Tales of the Jazz Age.
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Ten Favorite Short Stories. That Glimpse of Truth. The art of the story: The Barrens and Others. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. The Best American short stories of the eighties. The best of the best. Volume 2, 20 years of the best short science fiction novels. The Birthday of the World. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
The Best Short Story Collections Of All-Time
The complete poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The Dark Side of Guy de Maupassant: A Selection and Translation. The Dream Life of Astronauts. The Essential Tales of Chekhov. The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. The Great Short Works. The Heaven of Animals. The Ladies of Grace Adieu.
The 350+ Additional Short Story Books
The Life to Come and Other Stories. The Loss of All Lost Things. The Magic of Blood. The Mammoth Book of Zombies.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories. The most of P. The New Space Opera. The Night in Question. The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, The Oxford book of American short stories. The Oxford book of English short stories. The Oxford book of Jewish stories. The Oxford Book of Travel Stories. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. The Penguin book of Irish Fiction.
The People on Privilege Hill: The Pier Falls and Other Stories. The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales. The Safety of Objects. Tales of Faraway Places. Short Stories about College Students and Professors. Scenes from Life in New York. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Temple of Air. The Things They Carried.
The Triumph of the Egg. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories. The Voice of the Turtle: An Anthology of Cuban Stories. The Ways of White Folks. The Whole Story and Other Stories. The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection. These Heroic, Happy Dead. Thirteen Ways of Looking. This Is Not Chick Lit: Thunderstruck and Other Stories. And Other Tales of Love and Money. Twenty-first century science fiction. Twilight Of The Superheroes.