Among the characters you'll find in this collection of twelve stories by Tobias Wolff are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life, a timid professor who, in the fir...
SUMMARY: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is...
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at t...
From BooklistNew York Times columnist and college professor Fish appreciates fine sentences the way some people appreciate fine wine. In 10 short chapters, Fish takes readers throu...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on...
FromIn this collection, Eggers (_Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_) is obviously straddling the line between being a writer—and a very talented one at that—and being the spo...
SUMMARY: From the writer whose first novel,Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for near...
From Publishers WeeklyNine thoughtful, unfussy essays by the author of the collection I Was Told There'd Be Cake navigate around illusions of youth in the hope that by young adult....
In Hold the Enlightenment, America's favorite and funniest adventure writer returns with his most entertaining collection of essays yet, as he travels the globe and faces down chal...
From Publishers WeeklyThis immensely accomplished novel by the author of the Edgar Award-winning short story collection Poachers is based on a real-life feud in the 1890s that pitt...