Tag: anthologies
Woolson: Collected stories edited by Anne Boyd Rioux
Woolson: Collected stories, Anne Boyd Rioux editor, Library of America – In her lifetime Constance Fenimore Woolson achieved a remarkable degree of commercial success as well as literary acclaim, an achievement almost unheard of for a woman author of the Victorian era.
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Shelf Life of Happiness Explores Complexity of Love
Shelf Life of Happiness, Virginia Pye Virginia Pye had always written, but when she took a class from Annie Dillard at Wesleyan University in Connecticut she began to get a deeper sense of what writing requires.
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The Future is Female! edited by Lisa Yazek
The Future i Female!, Lisa Yazek Editor, Library of America – Shocking, disturbing and awe-inspiring is Lisa Yaszek ’s compilation of 25 science fiction and pulp stories, all written by women, in a special publication by The Library of America,The Future is Female! It comes with a warning: Visionary women writers in this landmark anthology may permanently alter your perception of American science fiction.
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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s edited by Leslie S. Klinger
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, editor Leslie S. Klinger, Pegasus Crime – Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle set the gold standard of detective fiction with his Sherlock Holmes stories, and for many years Conan-Doyle and other British crime writers, such as Agatha Christie, dominated the genre. In the 1920s American crime writers appeared on the scene with a distinctive style all their own.
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Novelist, Short Story Writer Nick White on Form, Place and Character
Sweet and Low, Nick White, Blue Rider Press – Writer Nick White bring his southern sensibility and experience as a gay man to bear on his telling stories that will stay with readers long after they close the covers of his books.
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Lee Martin’s The Mutual UFO Network Focuses on Rich Characters
The Mutual UFO Network, Lee Martin, Simon & Schuster – In his latest short story collection, The Mutual UFO Network, Lee Martin focuses his lens on seemingly regular people in small towns and peels away the layers until we see even the most difficult characters in their full humanity.
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