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The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time in book form.
Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people—and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more long-lasting, than that of a...
A number of distinguished Africans, representing a broad range of disciplines, ask what will the continent look like in 2057, a century on from independence in Ghana and Sudan. They set out to provide some "credible alternative visions," challenging the persistent image of Africa as a continent in...
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, *Housekeeping*, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.”
Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, *The Book of Women’s Friendship* explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its...
Burning Chrome 2003
Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with...
Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access...
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they’re his very favorite stories, he’ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for...
Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.
Of all the...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one. This National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume showcases her remarkable talent.
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both...
James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of...
Different Seasons 1982
Different Seasons brings together four novellas, each tied to a different season and exploring the darker corners of human experience.
In “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” a quiet banker sentenced to life in prison forms an enduring friendship while holding onto hope in the face of despair...
The Early Stories 2004
The Early Stories: 1953–1975 gathers a wide selection of John Updike’s short fiction from the first decades of his career, offering a detailed portrait of American life in the mid-20th century. Set in suburban neighborhoods, small towns, and cities, the stories focus on ordinary individuals...
Four Past Midnight 1990
ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t.
TWO PAST MIDNIGHT: Secret Window, Secret Garden enters the suddenly strange life of...
Hollywood Lies 1998
Hollywood Lies is a collection of seven suavely bewitching stories, all with a Machiavellian twist at the Marilyn Monroe as virtual reality's most valuable asset . A fading film producer whose impending death becomes the ultimate career break . A screenwriter terrorized by the character he creates -...
An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy.
A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next.
A trans man’s pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way.
A woman’s...
In the Bear's House 2020
In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.
A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.
A collection of stories linked by a mysterious and forbidden play, The King in Yellow, whose contents are said to drive those who read it into madness. Across these tales, reality begins to fray as characters encounter strange symbols, shifting identities, and glimpses of a hidden world where the...
Legion 2018
Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people—Stephen calls them aspects—to hold and manifest the...
A revealing self-portrait: In addition to his novels and short stories, John Cheever wrote a prodigious number of letters—sometimes thirty in a week. In The Letters of John Cheever , edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, Cheever reveals his most private thoughts to friends, famous writers,...
The Man in Black 2024
There are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss. In the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.
Looking into...
Night Shift 1978
A man learns there are things moving within the walls of an old laundry machine. Children gather in a lonely town beneath the influence of something ancient and terrible. Deep in the darkness of an abandoned Jerusalem’s Lot, horrors long buried begin to wake. In these stories, Stephen King explores...
A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….
A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense….
An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars—but at what...
The October Country 2025
The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village, where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city, where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway, where a tiny man’s most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night.
The October Country’s...
The Old Order 1955
A number of Porter’s finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel “Old Mortality” from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
On Community 2023
We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger...
In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form.
Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline...
Pixel 2019
Like stars in the sky, pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images. Each pixel contributes to this array, but no individual point can create the whole. The thirty stories that comprise Krisztina Tóth’s book similarly produce an...
Prefecture D 2020
Four novellas: Each taking place in 1998.
SEASON OF SHADOWS
"The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this." Personnel's Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the behavior of a legendary detective with unfinished business.
CRY OF THE EARTH
"It's too easy to...
One of the supreme fiction writers of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was also deeply insightful in his lesser-known roles as essayist, critic, and lecturer. Gathered together in this stunning compilation, Bellow’s vast range of nonfiction reveals the same wit, daring, and wisdom...
In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.
The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.
A woman travels through...
Skeleton Crew 1985
An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is the scene of the most...
A Song of War 2025
Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the East, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy’s gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens,...
Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on an old lover; the Little Sisters of...
Talk of the Devil 2025
Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye...
The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things that Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on...
In this thoughtful collection of essays, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett brings her narrative gifts to bear on her own life, using insight and compassion to turn very personal experiences into stories that will resonate with every reader.
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes...
Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems holds an interesting history. The three stories “Up in Michigan,” “Out of Season,” and “My Old Man” were first seen in this collection, but “Up in Michigan” was banned and not considered publishable in America until 1938 because of...
Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant...
Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it...
In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of today's most talented horror authors—the finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.
Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a...
What I Didn't See 2013
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.
The...
A collection of stories linked by a mysterious and forbidden play, The King in Yellow, whose contents are said to drive those who read it into madness. Across these tales, reality begins to fray as characters encounter strange symbols, shifting identities, and glimpses of a hidden world where the...
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth July 28, 2026
In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of today's most talented horror authors—the finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.
Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a...
The Sourdough Compendium June 9, 2026
Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on an old lover; the Little Sisters of...
The Book of Women's Friendship December 2, 2025
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, *Housekeeping*, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.”
Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, *The Book of Women’s Friendship* explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its...
The Anthony Bourdain Reader October 28, 2025
The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time in book form.
Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people—and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more long-lasting, than that of a...
Things That Disappear October 7, 2025
The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things that Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on...
A Song of War August 5, 2025
Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the East, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy’s gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens,...
The October Country June 17, 2025
The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village, where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city, where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway, where a tiny man’s most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night.
The October Country’s...
Talk of the Devil May 27, 2025
Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye...
The Man in Black October 15, 2024
There are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss. In the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.
Looking into...
Record of a Night Too Brief September 3, 2024
In these 3 haunting and lyrical stories, young women experience loss, loneliness, and extraordinary romance.
The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.
A woman travels through...
Classic Works of Horror August 27, 2024
Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.
Of all the...
On Community November 7, 2023
We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger...
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There March 7, 2023
Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant...
I Know What's Best for You June 7, 2022
An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy.
A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next.
A trans man’s pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way.
A woman’s...
Prefecture D November 10, 2020
Four novellas: Each taking place in 1998.
SEASON OF SHADOWS
"The force could lose face . . . I want you to fix this." Personnel's Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the behavior of a legendary detective with unfinished business.
CRY OF THE EARTH
"It's too easy to...
In the Bear's House May 15, 2020
In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.
Pixel June 15, 2019
Like stars in the sky, pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images. Each pixel contributes to this array, but no individual point can create the whole. The thirty stories that comprise Krisztina Tóth’s book similarly produce an...
Three Stories and Ten Poems January 8, 2019
Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems holds an interesting history. The three stories “Up in Michigan,” “Out of Season,” and “My Old Man” were first seen in this collection, but “Up in Michigan” was banned and not considered publishable in America until 1938 because of...
Legion September 18, 2018
Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people—Stephen calls them aspects—to hold and manifest the...
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About March 22, 2016
One of the supreme fiction writers of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was also deeply insightful in his lesser-known roles as essayist, critic, and lecturer. Gathered together in this stunning compilation, Bellow’s vast range of nonfiction reveals the same wit, daring, and wisdom...
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage November 5, 2013
In this thoughtful collection of essays, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett brings her narrative gifts to bear on her own life, using insight and compassion to turn very personal experiences into stories that will resonate with every reader.
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes...
What I Didn't See April 23, 2013
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.
The...
The Cross of Redemption September 6, 2011
James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of...
In the Presence of the Sun October 31, 2009
A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.
The Letters of John Cheever July 21, 2009
A revealing self-portrait: In addition to his novels and short stories, John Cheever wrote a prodigious number of letters—sometimes thirty in a week. In The Letters of John Cheever , edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, Cheever reveals his most private thoughts to friends, famous writers,...
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For November 21, 2007
Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it...
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box October 28, 2007
In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form.
Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline...
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules April 4, 2005
David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized. Sometimes he fantasizes that he wrote them. Sometimes, when they’re his very favorite stories, he’ll fantasize about reading them in front of an audience and taking credit for...
The Early Stories September 28, 2004
The Early Stories: 1953–1975 gathers a wide selection of John Updike’s short fiction from the first decades of his career, offering a detailed portrait of American life in the mid-20th century. Set in suburban neighborhoods, small towns, and cities, the stories focus on ordinary individuals...
The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories July 30, 2004
A collection of stories linked by a mysterious and forbidden play, The King in Yellow, whose contents are said to drive those who read it into madness. Across these tales, reality begins to fray as characters encounter strange symbols, shifting identities, and glimpses of a hidden world where the...
Burning Chrome July 29, 2003
Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with...
By-Line Ernest Hemingway May 12, 1998
Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers, and Look. As fledgling reporter, war correspondent, and seasoned journalist, Hemingway provides access...
Hollywood Lies May 8, 1998
Hollywood Lies is a collection of seven suavely bewitching stories, all with a Machiavellian twist at the Marilyn Monroe as virtual reality's most valuable asset . A fading film producer whose impending death becomes the ultimate career break . A screenwriter terrorized by the character he creates -...
Nightmares & Dreamscapes September 29, 1993
A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….
A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense….
An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars—but at what...
Beyond Hunger in Africa September 26, 1991
A number of distinguished Africans, representing a broad range of disciplines, ask what will the continent look like in 2057, a century on from independence in Ghana and Sudan. They set out to provide some "credible alternative visions," challenging the persistent image of Africa as a continent in...
Four Past Midnight September 24, 1990
ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t.
TWO PAST MIDNIGHT: Secret Window, Secret Garden enters the suddenly strange life of...
Skeleton Crew June 21, 1985
An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is the scene of the most...
Different Seasons August 27, 1982
Different Seasons brings together four novellas, each tied to a different season and exploring the darker corners of human experience.
In “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” a quiet banker sentenced to life in prison forms an enduring friendship while holding onto hope in the face of despair...
The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter September 19, 1979
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one. This National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume showcases her remarkable talent.
From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both...
Night Shift February 17, 1978
A man learns there are things moving within the walls of an old laundry machine. Children gather in a lonely town beneath the influence of something ancient and terrible. Deep in the darkness of an abandoned Jerusalem’s Lot, horrors long buried begin to wake. In these stories, Stephen King explores...
The Old Order August 4, 1955
A number of Porter’s finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel “Old Mortality” from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.