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Stories by seventeen authors who lived in cultures ranging from the Caribbean islands to Latin America, Africa, and Asia. They…
portray Americans abroad, host country nationals' reactions to Americans, and volunteers' experiences living in remote societies with different customsA collection of nineteen stories that, the editor asserts, typify Southern literature: "The people have been whipped, and whipped good."…
In "Memorial Day" a boy confronts Death as a laconic young man outside the house where the boy's brother lies deathly ill. Then Death pulls a startling twist. Strong languageNew stories from the South: the year's best, 1999
Par Tony Early. 1996
Twenty stories on various themes that give insight into the culture of the American south. In "Borrowed Hearts" a retiree…
is beset by the sudden loss of his olfactory sense. His dreams, which are redolent of a haunting past experience, vanish after he is cured. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999Twenty stories "full of life, death, love, humor, passion, hubris, blood, guts, dirt, God, war, mystery, fear, and longing." In…
"Boot" a Marine Corps recruit must make a profound ethical choice that will change his life forever. Strong language and descriptions of sexTwenty-one selections published between 1993 and 1998 in the magazine known as F&SF. Ranging from speculative science fiction to fairy…
tales, from alternate histories to supernatural horror tales, they include award winners by Esther Friesner, Maureen McHugh, Bruce Holland Rogers, Ursula Le Guin, and Elizabeth Hand. 1999Lewis celebrates "America's only truly original art form"--the western--by collecting what he considers to be classic western short stories and…
novelettes. The twenty-seven selected authors range from "pulp" writers such as Max Brand to classic authors such as Stephen Crane and Mark Twain, who are not usually thought of as contributors to the genre. Some strong language and violenceLove and war
Par John Jakes. 1987
Ten stories featuring the heroes and villains of Krynn as they pursue their objects of love or war, or sometimes…
both. Passion and selfishness, the tender aspects of love, love and sacrifice, and war as the eradicator of love and life are depicted in this collection. Some violence. Sequel to Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes (RC 36746.)Original short stories in English by Latino writers. Some are based entirely on Latino culture, others explore Latino-Anglo interrelationships, and…
still others examine a dual perspective of Latinos in the United States. In Jose Antonio Villarreal's "The Last Minstrel in California," a man from Chile entertains a camp of prune pickers, inspires a small boy, and cuckolds one of the menWhat these selections by Margaret Atwood, John Updike, and seventy others have in common is their brevity--most consisting of 250…
to 750 words. One story breezes through a couple's entire marriage from meeting to retirement. Others are magical--a woman learns origami and turns all of the apologies she constantly receives into folded shapes. Strong language and some descriptions of sexLatin American writers react to the Spanish conquest. Some writers identify only with pre-Columbian times, some view the invasion by…
Columbus with horror, and a few see the introduction of European culture as a blessing. In "Afterword: Two Anniversaries," Juan Goytisolo contrasts the legacy of the French revolution and its principles of freedom with the Spanish colonization of the New World. Strong languageThis selection of stories from the men's magazine Esquire contains some that have become famous, such as "The Snows of…
Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Also includes stories by women such as Flannery O'Connor and Gail Godwin. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sexA story from Harper's Magazine--"Is Laughter Contagious?" by Joyce Carol Oates--threatens the dissolution of civilization. Nearly half of the stories…
come from the New Yorker, including Alice Munro's "Carried Away" and Mavis Gallant's "Across the Bridge." One, "It's Come to This," is Annick Smith's first published fictionXanadu
1993
Collection of eighteen short stories and five poems by award-winning authors in and out of the fantasy genre. In The…
Poacher by Ursula K. LeGuin, an abused boy ends up in the castle of fairy-tale princesses. In Nancy Kress's story To Scale, a young boy builds a dollhouse in his basement. William Stafford's poem It Comes Lightly Out of the Sea, concerns walks on the beach. Some strong languageEarth song, sky spirit: short stories of the contemporary native American experience
Par Clifford E. Trafzer. 1993
The editor introduces this story collection with an explanation of the role that traditional tales and recurring themes play in…
Native American fiction. Trafzer also provides a biographical sketch of each of the thirty storytellers represented, including Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmom Silko, and others. Some strong languageXanadu 2
1994
Yolen's second fantasy collection, which includes seventeen stories and nine poems, focuses more on reality than fantasy. Three of the…
stories feature cats, including The Fifth Squashed Cat, about a hitchhiker who stays alive by using the magical bones of dead cats, and A Most Obedient Cat, about a cat that brings home dead bugs--among other things. In the poem Laurel, Again, an old women recalls her youth. Some violence and some strong languageNominees for the 1990 Nebula Awards. Winners are "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman, "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang,…
and "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson. Nonfiction entries include tributes to Donald A. Wollheim and Lester del Rey, the Rhysling Award poetry winners, and reviews of the science fiction movies of 1990. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sexMost stories struggle with the question, "Is science good or bad?" "Even the Queen," by Connie Willis, addresses the issue…
of medical intervention. "Lennon Spex," by Paul Di Filippo, fea- tures magic eyeglasses that allow one to see the connection between tendrils growing from people's heads and what the tendrils represent. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexThe Year's best mystery & suspense stories, 1994
Par Edward D. Hoch. 1994
Twelve stories, including the editor's "A Traffic in Webs," in which a department store attempts to obtain a web display…
to exhibit during the Christmas season and triggers a string of murders in the process. Also includes contributions by other masters of the genre such as Lawrence Block, Kate Wilhelm, Peter Tremayne, Donald E. Westlake, Julian Rathbone, and Miriam Grace Monfredo. Some strong languageSixty-five selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial American presses and magazines. "My Father, Dancing" by…
Bliss Broyard is her first published work. "A Thousand Buddhas," an essay about giving and receiving a massage, is by Brenda Miller, who once worked as a massage therapist. "Night Singing" is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.S. Merwin. Some strong languageIn selecting the twenty stories in this collection, Smiley indicates the order of the stories is artful--like a Chinese meal--so…
that the flavors enhance each other as the feast progresses. These "strange, exotic, rich, and charming" stories include selections by Gish Jen, Ellen Gilchrist, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. Bestseller