Literary Short Stories

“Let Me Think is often frightening, but it’s wonderfully readable and surprisingly accessible.

Following her 2011 debut collection, This Is Not Your City, and her 2019 novel, The Vexations, Caitlin Horrocks returns with a stellar second story collection, Life Among the

“Guestbook is best appreciated as a portable art installation. The book is enigmatic at every turn, but gorgeously realized.

“The Handsome Monk and Other Stories is engaging, charming, and often dark. It offers a rare and apparently honest view of modern Tibet . . .”

With the publication of Chinua Achebe’s remarkable novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958, the English speaking world was introduced to Nigerian literature.

“Serious stories, taking in the main a hard line on reality, and any gray scale would show them on the dark end of the spectrum.”

Haruki Murakami is an author who has never been easy to categorize.

Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux's latest offering, Signals: New and Selected Stories, collects twelve new short stories alongside nine others from his previous two collections, Same Pla

“This is Hilary Mantel at her best and arguably most readable.”

“The extent of Dr. John Henry Fleming’s literary range is unmistakable in this slight little book.

“Surely there will be other and better works from Ms. Bergman in the future, when her author’s eye is attracted to wider fields of vision.

“As with any anthology, the true strength of this book is the quality of the stories themselves.