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Prize Stories 1999

Author : Larry Dark
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 1999-09-14
ISBN 10 : 0385493584
Pages : 466 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (385 downloads)

Download Prize Stories 1999 PDF Format Full Free by Larry Dark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventy-ninth anniversary of this annual collection of short stories "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." (The Atlantic Monthly). Edited and with an introduction by Larry Dark 1999 Top-Prize Selection Jury: Sherman Alexie, Stephen King, Lorrie Moore Established in 1918 as a memorial to O.Henry, this esteemed annual collection has presented a remarkable collection of stories over the years. Recently, Series Editor Larry Dark has incorporated some exciting changes: a magazine award, the eligibility of stories from Canadian magazines, a list of fifty Honorable Mention stories, an expanded listing of publications consulted, and a celebrity author top-prize jury. Representing the very best in contemporary American and Canadian fiction, Prize Stories 1999: The O.Henry Awards is a superb collection of twenty inventive, full-bodied short stories brimming with life--proof of the continuing strength and variety of the genre.

Conversations with George Saunders

Author : Michael O'Connell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-06-27
ISBN 10 : 9781496840318
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (84 downloads)

Download Conversations with George Saunders PDF Format Full Free by Michael O'Connell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December provides detailed insight into his own writing process and craft, alongside nuanced interpretations of his own work. He also delves into aspects of his biography, including anecdotes from his childhood and his experiences as both a student and teacher in MFA programs, as well as reflections on how parenthood affected his writing, the role of religious belief and practice in his work, and how he has dealt with his growing popularity and fame. Throughout this collection, we see him in conversation with former students, fellow writers, mainstream critics, and literary scholars. In each instance, Saunders is eager to engage in meaningful dialogue about what he calls the “big questions of our age.” In a number of interviews, he reflects on the moral and ethical responsibility of fiction, as well as how his work engages with issues of social and political commentary. But at the same time, these interviews, like all of Saunders’s best work, are funny, warm, surprising, and wise. Saunders says he has “always enjoyed doing interviews” in part because he views “intense, respectful conversation [as], really, an artform—an exploration of sorts.” Readers of this volume will have the pleasure of joining him in this process of exploration.

International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 1857431790
Pages : 648 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (857 downloads)

Download International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 PDF Format Full Free by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000

Author : Gillian Holmes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1999-06-01
ISBN 10 : 0920966551
Pages : 1194 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (92 downloads)

Download Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000 PDF Format Full Free by Gillian Holmes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Who of Canadian Women is a guide to the most powerfuland innovative women in Canada. Celebrating the talents and achievement of over 3,700 women, Who's Who of Canadian Women includes women from all over Canada, in all fields, including agriculture, academia, law, business, politics, journalism, religion, sports and entertainment. Each biography includes such information as personal data, education, career history, current employment, affiliations, interests and honours. A special comment section reveals personal thoughts, goals, and achievements of the profiled individual. Entries are indexed by employment of affilitation for easy reference. Published every two years, Who's Who of Canadian Women selects its biographees on merit alone. This collection is an essential resource for all those interested in the achievements of Canadian women.

A Complete History of American Comic Books

Author : Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 1433101076
Pages : 370 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (433 downloads)

Download A Complete History of American Comic Books PDF Format Full Free by Shirrel Rhoades and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.

Short Story Index

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : UOM:49015002942739
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Conversations with Tim Gautreaux

Author : L. Lamar Nisly
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2012-07-27
ISBN 10 : 9781617036088
Pages : 187 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (36 downloads)

Download Conversations with Tim Gautreaux PDF Format Full Free by L. Lamar Nisly and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947) writes fiction that mixes equal parts dry humor, tall tales, and deep tragedy. His stories and novels of working-class Acadiana portray lives of inimitably poignant love, loss, and longing. The depth and complexity of Gautreaux’s writing invite scholarly appraisals as well, as critics mine the richness of his moral vision. These interviews reveal the intensity of his sense of place, his deep connection to the mechanical and working world, his commitment to the craft of writing, and his Catholic view that has been shaped by Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy. Conversations with Tim Gautreaux collects interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction. Readers who have been engaged with the themes in his stories and novels will find themselves equally taken with the kind and thoughtful voice they discover in interviews.

Prize Stories 2001

Author : Larry Dark
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2001-08-28
ISBN 10 : 0385498780
Pages : 468 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (385 downloads)

Download Prize Stories 2001 PDF Format Full Free by Larry Dark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year, stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines, and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award top prizes. The result is a superb collection of seventeen inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction. And in celebration of this distinguished literary form, Prize Stories 2001 a Special Award for Continuing Achievement is presented to Alice Munro. FIRST PRIZE MARY SWAN The Deep SECOND PRIZE DAN CHAON Big Me THIRD PRIZE ALICE MUNRO Floating Bridge FRED G. LEEBRON That Winter T.CORAGHESSAN BOYLE The Love of My Life JOYCE CAROL OATES The Girl with the Blackened Eye DAVID SCHICKLER The Smoker ANTONYA NELSON Female Trouble ELIZABETH GRAVER The Mourning Door PICKNEY BENEDICT Zog-19: A Scientific Romance RON CARLSON At the Jim Bridger LOUISE EDRICH Revival Road WILLIAM GAY The Paperhanger DALE PECK Bliss MURAD KALAM Bow Down GEORGE SAUNDERS Pastoralia ANDREA BARRETT Servants of the Map

Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers

Author : Bella Vivante
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 0313316279
Pages : 407 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)

Download Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers PDF Format Full Free by Bella Vivante and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers more than sixty women who published significant fiction after 1945, with a brief biography, exposition of major works and themes, survey of critical reception, and references to primary and secondary sources for each.

Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index

Author : S. Lillian Kremer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0415929849
Pages : 778 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (415 downloads)

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Contemporary Women's Fiction

Author : Subashish Bhattacharjee
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-13
ISBN 10 : 9783960675273
Pages : 70 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (675 downloads)

Download Contemporary Women's Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Subashish Bhattacharjee and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s writing in the twentieth century has shown a dramatic shift in its preoccupations and intentions. Rather than occupying itself with the trivialities of the social and domestic spheres, the writing by women in the latter half of the twentieth century and approaching the twenty-first century inheres concerns such as political, historical, questions of gender equity and rights, interrogations of normative and patriarchal practices and other such issues that have not been adequately addressed in women’s writing thus far. The four essays in the present volume are certainly not exhaustive or adequate in this regard — that of addressing this lacuna in literary scholarship — but it may be viewed as a attempt to bridge the proverbial gap. As a precursor to further scholarly works in the area, already existing as well as forthcoming, the essays discuss the works of Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Bapsi Sidhwa, Manju Kapur and Sunanda Sikdar. Although the essays purport to exploring select areas of the authors’ oeuvre, the distinctive fictional structures of the authors help us to explore wider theoretical and critical issues such as postmodernity, postcolonialism, feminism, globalism, nationalism and other related issues.

Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Akashic Books
Release Date : 2015-06-02
ISBN 10 : 9781617754340
Pages : 600 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (754 downloads)

Download Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set PDF Format Full Free by Dennis Lehane and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys…[Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has…left people feeling crushed." --New York Times, on Boston Noir "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and pampered preppies." --Boston Globe, on Boston Noir 2: The Classics Boston Noir & Boston Noir 2: The Complete Set combines all twenty-five stories from best seller Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane, and its sequel, Boston Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Lehane, Mary Cotton, & Jaime Clarke; featuring Lehane's own "Animal Rescue," the basis for the motion picture The Drop, and twenty-four classic noir stories set throughout Boston.

Boston Noir 2

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Akashic Books
Release Date : 2012
ISBN 10 : 9781617751363
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (751 downloads)

Download Boston Noir 2 PDF Format Full Free by Dennis Lehane and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by three acclaimed genre authors, a second volume of classic short fiction reprints includes pieces by such leading writers as Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker and David Foster Wallace.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002

Author : Larry Dark
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2002-08-27
ISBN 10 : 0385721625
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (385 downloads)

Download The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002 PDF Format Full Free by Larry Dark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb collection of inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction Established early in the last century as a memorial to the great American short story master O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year, stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines, and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to make the final selection.

Prizing Scottish Literature

Author : Stevie Marsden
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-02-15
ISBN 10 : 9781785274831
Pages : 189 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (274 downloads)

Download Prizing Scottish Literature PDF Format Full Free by Stevie Marsden and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. It is one piece of the wider cultural award puzzle and illustrates how, far from being parochial or niche, lesser-known awards, whose histories may be yet untold, play their own role in the circulation of cultural value through the consecration of literary value. The study of the Society’s Book of the Year and First Book of the Year Awards not only highlights how important connections between literary awards and national culture and identity are within prize culture and how literary awards, and their founding institutions, can be products of the socio-political and cultural milieu in which they form, but this study also illustrates how existing literary award scholarship has only begun to scratch the surface of the complexities of the phenomenon. This book promotes a new approach to considering literary prizes, proposing that the concept of the literary awards hierarchy can contribute to emerging and developing discourses pertaining to literary, and indeed cultural, prizes more broadly.

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Cumulative List

Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781794702868
Pages : 74 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (72 downloads)

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Morphologies

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Comma Press
Release Date : 2015-06-15
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 204 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Morphologies PDF Format Full Free by Sara Maitland and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a good short story? Being short, you might think the story's structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged as to what it should and shouldn't be made up of, what it should and shouldn't do. Here ,15 leading contemporary practitioners offer structural appreciations of past masters of the form as well as their own perspectives on what the short story does so well. The best short stories don't have closure, argues one contributor, 'because life doesn't have closure'; 'plot must be written with the denouement constantly in view,' quotes another. Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge, from Hawthorne's 'Twice Told Tales' to Kafka's modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and unique inroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.