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His short story "The Voyage Out" was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. His work was awarded the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award and the O. Henry Award. Gardiner's stories often take place in his native Virginia, but also in various places in Europe, most prominently in France. [1] His work has received vast critical ...
No Middle Name is an anthology book from the Jack Reacher series by British writer Lee Child. [1] It is a collection of two novellas and ten short stories. Novellas: Too Much Time; High Heat; Short stories: "Deep Down" "Everyone Talks" "Guy Walks into a Bar" "James Penney's New Identity" (1999 version) "Maybe They Have a Tradition" "No Room at ...
The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and National Book Award finalist, Min Jin Lee. [1] [2] [3]
[1] [2] It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima. It was praised by critics, and the Australian writer of short stories Cate Kennedy said that the collection brought the short story back to the "literary centre stage".
"Interference" (The New Yorker, 19 Sep 1994 [2]) - 69-year-old English composer Leonard Verity lives near Coulommiers in Northern France with his long term partner Adeline. . His most recent composition 'English Four Seasons' was planning to be broadcast on the radio by the BBC, but they have difficulties receiving it from England, as their neighbour's electrical appliances interfere
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer is a short story collection of dark fantasy retellings of popular fairytales by British author Tanith Lee.Contrary to what the title may suggest, it not only includes retellings of fairytales by the Brothers Grimm, but also by Charles Perrault, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve or Alexander Afanasyev.
Based on the popular fairy tale of the same name, this parody includes as its main themes mocking the idea of anti-"speciesism" and the more radical branches and concepts of feminism (such as using the spelling "womyn" instead of "women" throughout, a pattern that is repeated in other stories in the book), and is one of the several stories in which the ending is completely altered from the ...