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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSaints and Sinners
Edna O'Brien · 245 pages
Collects short stories depicting restless, searching people set in Dublin, London, and New York.
Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin · 235 pages
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of
The Angel Esmeralda
Don DeLillo · 234 pages
Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 480 pages
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · 198 pages
The Dinner Party and Other Stories
Joshua Ferris · 251 pages
These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker, are at once thrilling, strange, and comic. The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr. · 303 pages
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth who has never been on the right side of the law; Tralala, who can find no escape from
The Great Gatsby and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 319 pages
Bad Behavior: Stories
Mary Gaitskill · 203 pages
Powerful stories of dislocation, longing and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is groping for human connection. (Or, more simply put, the angst of people-who-wear-black.)
Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham · 336 pages
" ... Three related stories spanning three-hundred years of New York history." A ghost story set during the Industrial Revolution, a thriller set at the beginning of the 21st century and a science fiction story set 150 years in the future.
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks · 416 pages
A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combinat
Kissing in Manhattan
David Schickler · 265 pages
David Shickler's much anticipated work of fiction, Kissing in Manhattan, casts a knowing eye on a handful of lonely, love-starved New Yorkers, many of whom are inhabitants of the Preemption, a legendary Gothic apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The surprising ways that the lives of these apartment dwellers intersect, building to an emotional climax in the final piece. In "Jacob's B
The Company She Keeps
Mary McCarthy · 304 pages
Six episodes that tell of the experiences of a girl, in her twenties and on her own in New York, fuse into a portrait of an individual and a revelation of a distinct social milieu.