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Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970

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Sixty Stories

Donald Barthelme · 464 pages

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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

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The Tent

Margaret Atwood · 158 pages

The Tent is a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 2006. Although classified with Atwood’s short fiction, The Tent has been characterized as an “experimental” collection of “fictional essays" or “mini-fictions.” The work also incorporates line drawings by Atwood. Source: [Wikipedia][1] [1]: https://g.co/kgs/6Gge4p

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol · 464 pages

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The Elephant

Slawomir Mrozek · 176 pages

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Varieties of Disturbance

Lydia Davis · 240 pages

"In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take every form from sociological studies to concise poems. Her subjects include the five senses, fourth-graders, good taste, and tropical storms. She offers a reinterpretation of insomnia and re-creates the ordeals of Kafka in the kitchen. She questions the lengths to which one should go t

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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The Thurber Carnival

James Thurber · 369 pages

James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, are

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Screwjack

Hunter S. Thompson · 64 pages

Collects three short stories in Thompson's unique gonzo style: a chronicle of his first experience with mescaline, the death of a friend, and a letter by the fictitious Raoul Duke.

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Slow Learner: Early Stories

Thomas Pynchon · 193 pages

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Meet Mr. Mulliner

P.G. Wodehouse · 203 pages

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The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino · 432 pages

When the moon was closer to the earth, he would once a month, when its orbit made it possible climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great confusion and destroying his grandmother's pillow. As a child, he used the curve of space to play marbles with brand-new atoms. With the rest of his family, he evolved to walk on land only

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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Mark Twain · 676 pages

The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the bad little boy -- Cannibalism in the cars -- A day at Niagara -- Legend of the Capitoline Venus -- Journalism in Tennessee -- A curious dream -- The facts in the great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- A medieval romance -- My watch -- Political economy -- Science vs. Luck -- The story of the good

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The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature · 176 pages

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Tabloid Dreams

Robert Olen Butler · 208 pages

In his first collection since the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler dazzles anew with his mastery of the short-story form and his true empathy for the denizens of the less-well-explored corners of the human condition. Though his mirthful and appropriately absurd story titles - "Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis," "Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed,"

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If You Steal

Jason · 208 pages

"Jason's latest collection of full color comics indulges in his light and playful side, consisting of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix incongruous elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful soupcon of graphic storytelling. Frida Kahlo is a hired killer. Santo, the Mexican wrestling film star, faces his ultimate challenge. The rise and fall of C

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Azazel

Isaac Asimov · 221 pages

Meet Azazel... He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course. George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain

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Pure Drivel

Steve Martin · 130 pages

A collection of Martin's comic writings, some of which first appeared in: The New Yorker.

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Without Feathers

Woody Allen · 210 pages

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Doppler

Erlend Loe · 176 pages

After his father dies, Doppler leaves his job, his home and his family to go live in the forest. When he kills a she-elk for meat he's adopted by her calf. Doppler is a charming, absurd and subversive novel about a man and his moose, with serious undertones and criticism of our modern consumer society.

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The Collected Short Stories of Saki

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro · 512 pages

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The Suitcase

Sergei Dovlatov · 128 pages

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Self-Help

Lorrie Moore · 163 pages

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