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The title story and “Marriage Lines” are beautiful, elegiac tales about how marriages endure or change over time: stories that attest to the new emotional depth Mr. Barnes discovered in his 2004 collection “The Lemon Table.”
In 2024, the New York Times ranked the book #23 of the best 100 books of the 21st century. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides. Two of the stories were adapted into films.
Getting Married (Swedish: Giftas) is a collection of short stories by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. [1] The first volume was first published on 27 September 1884 and contained twelve stories depicting "twenty marriages of every variety," some of which present women in an egalitarian light. [2]
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the nightmares of weight control ...
Carver also selected the contents for the book Syracuse Poems and Stories 1980 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Department of English, Syracuse University, 1980). He also selected, along with Shannon Ravenel, the stories included in The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1986) and edited American Short Story Masterpieces (New York ...
Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 short story collection by the writer Carmen Maria Machado, published by Graywolf Press. [1] The collection won the Shirley Jackson Award, [2] and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. [3] The story "The Husband Stitch" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [4]
Since its inception, The Masters Review has been honored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best Short Story Collection [1] by the American Library Association and Foreword Reviews, a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts [2] for the work it does for new writers, and has stories recognized in The Best of the Net, The Best Small ...