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Lorrie Moore
This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore’s talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories are presented as a highly idiosyncratic guide to female existence: ‘How…
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Jennifer Down
Pulse Points is the collected stories by Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour and one of Australia’s newest and most promising literary talents.
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Laura Elvery
‘Radiant, accomplished and exquisitely written, this is an outstanding collection.’ Ryan O'Neill
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Leopoldine Core
A debut story collection from a 2015 Whiting Award winner Leopoldine Core, set in and around New York city.
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The Love of a Bad Man is a collection of short stories that imagine the lives of thirteen women, all of whom were the lovers, mistresses, or wives of various…
Ottessa Moshfegh
There’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious.
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Margaret Atwood
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young…
A wonderful collection from one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of her generation.
Maile Meloy
A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn’t a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde. Meloy’s unforgettable characters have each reached a…
Lucia Berlin
A chance to be let in on a great American secret.
Ellen Van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven takes her readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical and still achingly real.
Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has…
Roxane Gay
A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection from award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay.
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Miranda July
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant…
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Abigail Ulman
This exceptional collection of stories is about young women of different ages, from their early teens to their late twenties, coming to terms with what it means to desire, and…