McSweeney's 47

McSweeney's 47 PDF Author: Josephine Rowe
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
ISBN: 9781938073861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A latest quarterly anthology by the two-time National Magazine Award-winning literary journal features entries by forefront and up-and-coming writers, as well as an eccentric design.

McSweeney's 47

McSweeney's 47 PDF Author: Josephine Rowe
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
ISBN: 9781938073861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
A latest quarterly anthology by the two-time National Magazine Award-winning literary journal features entries by forefront and up-and-coming writers, as well as an eccentric design.

The Best American Short Stories 2015

The Best American Short Stories 2015 PDF Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547939434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and others (Kirkus Reviews). In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes entries by Denis Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth McCracken, Aria Beth Sloss, Thomas McGuane, and others.

There is a Country

There is a Country PDF Author: Nyuol Lueth Tong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938073748
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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There Is a Country collects eight engrossing pieces by South Sudanese authors--the first collection of its kind, from the youngest country in the world. Wrestling with a history marked by war and displacement, the work here presents a fresh and necessary account of an emerging nation, past and present. In vivid, gripping prose, There Is a Country's stories explore youth and love, life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer.

Memory Wall

Memory Wall PDF Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Mcsweeney's Issue 64

Mcsweeney's Issue 64 PDF Author: Claire Boyle
Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN: 9781952119057
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Items in container: Main book -- Aleatory fiction [booklet] -- Voicemails to the editor -- Crypto acoustic auditory non-hallucatination -- Audio tours of your home -- Get on board -- KidzWorks! -- Douteflower -- ClearVoice -- Speculation, N. -- Clinical judgment.

Vacation

Vacation PDF Author: Deb Olin Unferth
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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The story of a wife, a husband, and a stranger with problems.

You Shall Know Our Velocity

You Shall Know Our Velocity PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307426084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Book Description
An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

McSweeney's Issue 17

McSweeney's Issue 17 PDF Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241143438
Category : Experimental fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This title presents a new compilation of writings from the popular literary journal, which began in 1998 as a small literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines.

McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) PDF Author: Claire Boyle
Publisher: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
ISBN: 9781952119224
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :

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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with 66th issue. A beautiful back-to-basics paperback, Issue 65 features a band-new story by Stephen King. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction. Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly "A key barometer of the literary climate."-The New York Times "McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. " -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire

Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire PDF Author: Kitania Folk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944211820
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Every kid in the world needs a safe, welcoming, and even weird place to write. That's the theory behind 826 Valencia, a writing and tutoring center started in 2002. That center, with a pirate-themed storefront, inspired similar centers around the world, from New York to Melbourne. Across 280 pages and hundreds of beautiful full-color photos, this lavish, oversized book takes you behind the scenes of how these centers started, in the hopes of inspiring more communities, schools, and libraries around the world to build their own centers for young writers. Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire is a joyous and wildly creative book, filled with stunning photos of the world's most welcoming and wild spaces for young minds."--Publisher's website.