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By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002By Lisa Yaszek, Patrick B. Sharp. 2016
Selection of short fiction, essays, and poems by women working in the genre in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Includes…
fiction by C. L Moore, poems by Julia Boynton Green, and journalism by L. Taylor Hansen. Also provides commentary documenting women's contributions to the pulp-magazine community. Some violence and some strong language. 2016By Tom Franklin, Brian Carpenter. 2012
Collection of twenty-eight previously published works, memoirs and fiction, that showcase life in the American South--without romanticism. In an excerpt…
from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews reminisces about his Georgia birthplace. In Pinckney Benedict's "Pit" a dog fight ends in murder. Violence and strong language. 2012By Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, Samantha Schnee. 2007
Translated stories, essays, poems, and excerpts by twenty-eight writers from twenty-one countries including Bosnia, China, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria.…
In Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani's "A Drowsy Haze," a Cairo man prepares for death. In Norwegian writer Johan Harstad's "Vietnam. Thursday," a psychologist interviews a napalm-burned refugee. 2007By Stephen Crane, J. C. Levenson. 1996
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984By Andrei Codrescu. 2006
Essays from a Romanian-born National Public Radio commentator about his adopted city of New Orleans. Includes some pieces written after…
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Describes the Big Easy and its inhabitants, food, cemeteries, eccentrics, neighborhoods, Mardi Gras, and crime. 2006By John Dufresne. 2018
Novelist and creative writing professor presents a guide to writing flash fiction, which is typically defined as being between 250…
and 1,500 words in length. Uses examples to deconstruct the composition of good short stories and examines what is required. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2018By Marcy Knopf-Newman. 1993
Twenty-eight stories written in the 1920s and 1930s by fourteen African American women. Most were originally published in magazines and…
chronicle the struggles of race, gender, and poverty. In the title piece, a woman passes for white until her husband's bigotry breaks her silence. Violence and strong language. 1993