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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Gambler/Bobok/A Nasty Story
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 242 pages
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson · 304 pages
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famo
Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 240 pages
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II—an essay that is as timely today as it was then—to a painfully funny short story
The Pat Hobby Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 159 pages
Seventeen episodes in the life of a Hollywood scenario hack in the late 1930's. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, publisher of "Esquire", in which the stories appeared from January 1940 to May 1941.
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
Zsuzsi Gartner · 216 pages
A collection of satirical and darkly humorous stories set in Vancouver which tackle themes of evolution, manhood, international adoption, real estate, the movie industry, science and faith, art, and terrorism.
The David Foster Wallace Reader
David Foster Wallace · 969 pages
"Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, gram
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Gogol · 271 pages
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel
Mo Yan · 220 pages
The Fun Parts
Sam Lipsyte · 229 pages
Presents a collection of stories featuring such characters as a deranged male birth doula, an aerobics instructor trying to save her soul, and a doomsday hustler.
God Is Dead
Ron Currie Jr. · 182 pages
Traces the world impact of God's descent to Earth in the body of a Dinka woman who subsequently dies in the Darfur desert, events that profoundly impact every aspect of human life, from warfare and parenting to religious practices and health care.
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
Marquis de Sade · 330 pages
Emporium
Adam Johnson · 256 pages
An ATF raid, a moonshot gone wrong, a busload of female cancer victims determined to live life to the fullest—these are the compelling terrains Adam Johnson explores in his electrifying debut collection. A lovesick teenage Cajun girl, a gay Canadian astrophysicist, a teenage sniper on the LAPD payroll, a post-apocalyptic bulletproof-vest salesman—each seeks connection and meaning in landscapes
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
Raphael Bob-Waksberg · 256 pages
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Will Self · 211 pages
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane ... The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilariou
Smut
Alan Bennett · 157 pages
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him.
American Housewife: Stories
Helen Ellis · 198 pages
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a r
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting · 188 pages
"Fiction. Winner of the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, chosen Ben Marcus. In this darkly hilarious debut collection, misfit women and girls in every strata of society are investigated through various ill-fated jobs. One is the main course of dinner, another the porn star contracted to copulate in space for a reality TV show. They become futuristic ant farms, get knocked up by the st
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Чак Паланик, Крис Картер, Деннис Уидмайер, Ричард Томас, Нил Кролики, Гейл Тауэлл, Тони Либхард, Майкл де Вито-мл., Тайлер Джонс, Фил Джордан, Ричард Леммер, Аманда Гауин, Мэтт Иган, Фред Вентурини, Брендон Тиц, Адам Скорупскас, Брайан Хоуи, Брайан Пиекос, Джейсон Файлан, Теренс Илс, Кит Бьюи, Гас М · 294 pages
Кто может написать так же, как Чак Паланик?А может, эти начинающие литераторы пишут даже лучше Паланика?Мастер лично отметил достижения молодых талантов, предоставив им место на своем фанатском веб-сайте в качестве дискуссионной площадки, и затем, отобрав лучших из лучших, смешал в палитре этого дебюта сатиру и хоррор, лирику и шок, курьез и мечту.Рассказы, представленные в этом сборнике, получили
The Collected Short Stories of Saki
Saki, Hector Hugh Munro · 512 pages
Gates of Eden
Ethan Coen · 288 pages
This debut collection from screenplay writer Ethan Coen is peopled with mobsters and hicks, imaginatively crafted and imbued with send-ups of literary classics.
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
B.J. Novak · 276 pages
"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--t
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
Chuck Palahniuk · 336 pages
"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tr