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Battleborn In ten stories reminiscent of the work of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Watkins writes her way into the mythology of the American West, reimagining its vast, lonely spaces—from ghost towns to deserts to brothels—as redemptive territories. “[These stories] tell the tale of a place, and of the population that thrives and perishes therein....Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side—wiser, warier, and weathered like the landscape.”—The New York Times Book Review

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JOHN O’HARA The New York Stories EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN GOLDLEAF FOREWORD BY E. L. DOCTOROW

Collected for the first time, these unsparing stories present New York as observed by one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city and by a master of American realism. “Superb....The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons....Undoubtedly, between the 1930s and the 1970s, [O’Hara] was American fiction’s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society....What elevates O’Hara above slice-of-life portraitists like Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner is the turmoil glimpsed beneath the vibrant surfaces.”—The Wall Street Journal

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JUNOT DÍAZ This Is How You Lose Her “Electrifying....[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review “A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPR RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59463-177-1 • $16.00 A 2012 National Book Award Finalist

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MANUEL GONZALES The Miniature Wife:

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Exuberantly imagined chronicles from a world in which the fantastic has become commonplace and ordinary lives open to extraordinary danger and beauty. Gonzales’ 18 short stories are strikingly original and told with the narrative grace of a born storyteller. “A beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, comion, horror, and grace.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

RAMONA AUSUBEL A Guide to Being Born This enthralling new collection of eleven imaginative, provocative stories in the vein of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell is organized around the stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the transformations that accompany deeply altering events like falling in love, becoming parents, and looking toward death. “Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected....The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PP. • 978-1-59448-795-8 • $26.95

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Collected Stories EDITED WITH A PREFACE BY JANIS BELLOW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD

This feast for lovers of short stories includes, among others, “Leaving the Yellow House,” “Cousins,” “The Old System,” “The Silver Dish,” “Something to Me By” and the semi-autobiographical “By the St. Lawrence.” “[Bellow is] the greatest American author ever, in my view....His sentences seem to weigh more than anyone else’s. He is like a force of nature....He breaks all the rules....[T]he people in Bellow’s fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal.”—Martin Amis PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PP. • 978-0-14-310725-5 • $20.00

T. C . B O Y L E T.C. Boyle Stories II The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II This second volume of short fiction features 58 stories from a master of the form. Written over the last 18 years, the work collected here reflects Boyle’s maturing themes, from his exploration of contemporary social issues to his character-driven contemplation of enduring tropes, like the consequences of first love and the pain of confronting mortality. “[Boyle is] a writer born to elegance and equipped with keen eyes, ears and a preternatural skill at evoking the objects of his roving interest.”—The Los Angeles Times VIKING HARDCOVER • 944 PP. • 978-0-670-02625-8 • $45.00

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First published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this collection of stories confronts the real and the surreal on even to create a disturbing vision of the American dream. Included here are some of the best examples of Home’s satirical exposés of the dangers of ordinary life, including “Adults Alone,” “A Real Doll,” and “Looking for Johnny.” “Full of subversive humor and truth...original and stiletto sharp.”—The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312270-8 • $15.00

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Battleborn In ten stories reminiscent of the work of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Watkins writes her way into the mythology of the American West, reimagining its vast, lonely spaces—from ghost towns to deserts to brothels—as redemptive territories. “[These stories] tell the tale of a place, and of the population that thrives and perishes therein....Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side—wiser, warier, and weathered like the landscape.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Collected for the first time, these unsparing stories present New York as observed by one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city and by a master of American realism. “Superb....The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons....Undoubtedly, between the 1930s and the 1970s, [O’Hara] was American fiction’s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society....What elevates O’Hara above slice-of-life portraitists like Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner is the turmoil glimpsed beneath the vibrant surfaces.”—The Wall Street Journal

RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 304 PP. • 978-1-59463-145-0 • $16.00 Winner of the 2012 Story Prize and Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award

JUNOT DÍAZ This Is How You Lose Her “Electrifying....[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review “A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPR RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59463-177-1 • $16.00 A 2012 National Book Award Finalist

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MANUEL GONZALES The Miniature Wife:

And Other Stories

Exuberantly imagined chronicles from a world in which the fantastic has become commonplace and ordinary lives open to extraordinary danger and beauty. Gonzales’ 18 short stories are strikingly original and told with the narrative grace of a born storyteller. “A beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, comion, horror, and grace.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

RAMONA AUSUBEL A Guide to Being Born This enthralling new collection of eleven imaginative, provocative stories in the vein of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell is organized around the stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the transformations that accompany deeply altering events like falling in love, becoming parents, and looking toward death. “Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected....The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PP. • 978-1-59448-795-8 • $26.95

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NEW TITLES FOR 2014

Collected Stories EDITED WITH A PREFACE BY JANIS BELLOW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD

This feast for lovers of short stories includes, among others, “Leaving the Yellow House,” “Cousins,” “The Old System,” “The Silver Dish,” “Something to Me By” and the semi-autobiographical “By the St. Lawrence.” “[Bellow is] the greatest American author ever, in my view....His sentences seem to weigh more than anyone else’s. He is like a force of nature....He breaks all the rules....[T]he people in Bellow’s fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal.”—Martin Amis PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PP. • 978-0-14-310725-5 • $20.00

T. C . B O Y L E T.C. Boyle Stories II The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II This second volume of short fiction features 58 stories from a master of the form. Written over the last 18 years, the work collected here reflects Boyle’s maturing themes, from his exploration of contemporary social issues to his character-driven contemplation of enduring tropes, like the consequences of first love and the pain of confronting mortality. “[Boyle is] a writer born to elegance and equipped with keen eyes, ears and a preternatural skill at evoking the objects of his roving interest.”—The Los Angeles Times VIKING HARDCOVER • 944 PP. • 978-0-670-02625-8 • $45.00

A. M. HOMES The Safety of Objects

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First published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this collection of stories confronts the real and the surreal on even to create a disturbing vision of the American dream. Included here are some of the best examples of Home’s satirical exposés of the dangers of ordinary life, including “Adults Alone,” “A Real Doll,” and “Looking for Johnny.” “Full of subversive humor and truth...original and stiletto sharp.”—The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312270-8 • $15.00

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Battleborn In ten stories reminiscent of the work of Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Watkins writes her way into the mythology of the American West, reimagining its vast, lonely spaces—from ghost towns to deserts to brothels—as redemptive territories. “[These stories] tell the tale of a place, and of the population that thrives and perishes therein....Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side—wiser, warier, and weathered like the landscape.”—The New York Times Book Review

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JOHN O’HARA The New York Stories EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN GOLDLEAF FOREWORD BY E. L. DOCTOROW

Collected for the first time, these unsparing stories present New York as observed by one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city and by a master of American realism. “Superb....The 32 stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons....Undoubtedly, between the 1930s and the 1970s, [O’Hara] was American fiction’s greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society....What elevates O’Hara above slice-of-life portraitists like Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner is the turmoil glimpsed beneath the vibrant surfaces.”—The Wall Street Journal

RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 304 PP. • 978-1-59463-145-0 • $16.00 Winner of the 2012 Story Prize and Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award

JUNOT DÍAZ This Is How You Lose Her “Electrifying....[Díaz] weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status.”—The New York Times Book Review “A major contribution to the short story form...for readers who demand of their fiction both emotional precision and linguistic daring.”—NPR RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59463-177-1 • $16.00 A 2012 National Book Award Finalist

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PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 400 PP. • 978-0-14-310709-5 • $17.00

SAUL BELLOW

SHORT STORIES

MANUEL GONZALES The Miniature Wife:

And Other Stories

Exuberantly imagined chronicles from a world in which the fantastic has become commonplace and ordinary lives open to extraordinary danger and beauty. Gonzales’ 18 short stories are strikingly original and told with the narrative grace of a born storyteller. “A beautiful, hilarious and moving reinvention of the gothic, a testimony to the sublime powers of the imagination and language. This is a book of extraordinary joy, comion, horror, and grace.”—Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

RAMONA AUSUBEL A Guide to Being Born This enthralling new collection of eleven imaginative, provocative stories in the vein of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell is organized around the stages of life—love, conception, gestation, birth—and the transformations that accompany deeply altering events like falling in love, becoming parents, and looking toward death. “Each story in this collection finds a way to record the tensions between the corporeal and the invisible, the forces that animate us but ultimately can’t be dissected....The dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PP. • 978-1-59448-795-8 • $26.95

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NEW TITLES FOR 2014

Collected Stories EDITED WITH A PREFACE BY JANIS BELLOW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD

This feast for lovers of short stories includes, among others, “Leaving the Yellow House,” “Cousins,” “The Old System,” “The Silver Dish,” “Something to Me By” and the semi-autobiographical “By the St. Lawrence.” “[Bellow is] the greatest American author ever, in my view....His sentences seem to weigh more than anyone else’s. He is like a force of nature....He breaks all the rules....[T]he people in Bellow’s fiction are real people, yet the intensity of the gaze that he bathes them in, somehow through the particular, opens up into the universal.”—Martin Amis PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 464 PP. • 978-0-14-310725-5 • $20.00

T. C . B O Y L E T.C. Boyle Stories II The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II This second volume of short fiction features 58 stories from a master of the form. Written over the last 18 years, the work collected here reflects Boyle’s maturing themes, from his exploration of contemporary social issues to his character-driven contemplation of enduring tropes, like the consequences of first love and the pain of confronting mortality. “[Boyle is] a writer born to elegance and equipped with keen eyes, ears and a preternatural skill at evoking the objects of his roving interest.”—The Los Angeles Times VIKING HARDCOVER • 944 PP. • 978-0-670-02625-8 • $45.00

A. M. HOMES The Safety of Objects

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First published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this collection of stories confronts the real and the surreal on even to create a disturbing vision of the American dream. Included here are some of the best examples of Home’s satirical exposés of the dangers of ordinary life, including “Adults Alone,” “A Real Doll,” and “Looking for Johnny.” “Full of subversive humor and truth...original and stiletto sharp.”—The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 208 PP. • 978-0-14-312270-8 • $15.00

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Drifting House

Short Stories in Chinese

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

“Reminiscent of a minimalist style that has been used to great effect by others such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Yoon, Mary Yukari Waters, and Yiyun Li...Lee’s narratives take flight in the domestic terrain of Korean and Korean American family relationships made unstable through transnational movements....[A] definite must-read for Asian American literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University

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Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

The perfect introduction to contemporary Chinese fiction, this dual-language edition of eight Chinese stories, complete with notes, features many stories appearing in English for the first time. With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society.

Fourteen chilling tales from the 1940s through the mid-1970s by pioneering women like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith who created the domestic suspense genre. “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANNA SUMMERS

By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well.”—The Daily Beast PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00

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Better Living Through Plastic Explosives “With Vancouver’s people and stunning natural beauty as her primary muses, in these ten stories Gartner dreams up all sorts of memorable bits....[This] isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction of Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, ambition, and folly. For such a funny writer, this is serious stuff.”—The Seattle Times PINTAIL PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00

H A M P T O N FA N C H E R The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories The screenwriter of Blade Runner makes his debut with this extraordinary collection of stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time. “[Fancher's] fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem BLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 288 PP. • 978-0-399-15823-0 • $25.95

D A N I E L L E E VA N S Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self “Whipsmart....Charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00

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Come Along with Me

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Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel FOREWORD BY LAURA MILLER

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A haunting and psychologically driven collection that captures Jackson’s gothic vision of small-town America and the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she delivered during her last years.

23 Great Stories The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Mauant, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others.

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FORTHCOMING IN 2014

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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

This Is Not an Accident

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In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, this collection of stories presents a zany cast of characters spiraling toward self-destruction, savoring a poetic range of disasters.

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This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chilling satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Wortsman dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

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With hard-eyed realism, Klay takes readers to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to show what happened there, and after, to the soldiers who bore the burden.

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Set against the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Includes contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others.

In the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, Blasim transforms our understanding of the conflict and reveals himself a master of the short story as he mixes reportorial realism with flights of fantasy, horror with tenderness, and allegory with history.

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“Reminiscent of a minimalist style that has been used to great effect by others such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Yoon, Mary Yukari Waters, and Yiyun Li...Lee’s narratives take flight in the domestic terrain of Korean and Korean American family relationships made unstable through transnational movements....[A] definite must-read for Asian American literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University

New Penguin Parallel Text

Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

The perfect introduction to contemporary Chinese fiction, this dual-language edition of eight Chinese stories, complete with notes, features many stories appearing in English for the first time. With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society.

Fourteen chilling tales from the 1940s through the mid-1970s by pioneering women like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith who created the domestic suspense genre. “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott

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By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well.”—The Daily Beast PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00

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D A N I E L L E E VA N S Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self “Whipsmart....Charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00

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D AV I D L E AV I T T a n d AARON THIER, editors

Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel FOREWORD BY LAURA MILLER

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A haunting and psychologically driven collection that captures Jackson’s gothic vision of small-town America and the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she delivered during her last years.

23 Great Stories The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Mauant, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others.

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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

This Is Not an Accident

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In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, this collection of stories presents a zany cast of characters spiraling toward self-destruction, savoring a poetic range of disasters.

TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR

VIKING HARDCOVER • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95

This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chilling satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Wortsman dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

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Short Stories in Chinese

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

“Reminiscent of a minimalist style that has been used to great effect by others such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Yoon, Mary Yukari Waters, and Yiyun Li...Lee’s narratives take flight in the domestic terrain of Korean and Korean American family relationships made unstable through transnational movements....[A] definite must-read for Asian American literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University

New Penguin Parallel Text

Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

The perfect introduction to contemporary Chinese fiction, this dual-language edition of eight Chinese stories, complete with notes, features many stories appearing in English for the first time. With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society.

Fourteen chilling tales from the 1940s through the mid-1970s by pioneering women like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith who created the domestic suspense genre. “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANNA SUMMERS

By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well.”—The Daily Beast PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00

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Better Living Through Plastic Explosives “With Vancouver’s people and stunning natural beauty as her primary muses, in these ten stories Gartner dreams up all sorts of memorable bits....[This] isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction of Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, ambition, and folly. For such a funny writer, this is serious stuff.”—The Seattle Times PINTAIL PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00

H A M P T O N FA N C H E R The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories The screenwriter of Blade Runner makes his debut with this extraordinary collection of stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time. “[Fancher's] fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem BLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 288 PP. • 978-0-399-15823-0 • $25.95

D A N I E L L E E VA N S Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self “Whipsmart....Charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00

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Come Along with Me

D AV I D L E AV I T T a n d AARON THIER, editors

Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel FOREWORD BY LAURA MILLER

Course Name:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A haunting and psychologically driven collection that captures Jackson’s gothic vision of small-town America and the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she delivered during her last years.

23 Great Stories The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Mauant, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others.

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FORTHCOMING IN 2014

PETER WORTSMAN, editor

APRIL WILDER

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

This Is Not an Accident

Course Name:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Term:___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Anticipated Enrollment:_________________________

In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, this collection of stories presents a zany cast of characters spiraling toward self-destruction, savoring a poetic range of disasters.

TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR

VIKING HARDCOVER • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95

This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chilling satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Wortsman dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

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With hard-eyed realism, Klay takes readers to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to show what happened there, and after, to the soldiers who bore the burden.

24 Modern African Stories

Master Card

And Other Stories of Iraq

TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN WRIGHT

Set against the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Includes contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others.

In the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, Blasim transforms our understanding of the conflict and reveals himself a master of the short story as he mixes reportorial realism with flights of fantasy, horror with tenderness, and allegory with history.

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Drifting House

Short Stories in Chinese

Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

“Reminiscent of a minimalist style that has been used to great effect by others such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Paul Yoon, Mary Yukari Waters, and Yiyun Li...Lee’s narratives take flight in the domestic terrain of Korean and Korean American family relationships made unstable through transnational movements....[A] definite must-read for Asian American literature fans.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University

New Penguin Parallel Text

Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

The perfect introduction to contemporary Chinese fiction, this dual-language edition of eight Chinese stories, complete with notes, features many stories appearing in English for the first time. With work by both new and well-established writers, these stories cover a range of styles and themes, from a story by Li Rui about the simplicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story by Ma Yuan exposing the seamy underside of contemporary urban society.

Fourteen chilling tales from the 1940s through the mid-1970s by pioneering women like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith who created the domestic suspense genre. “[A] goldmine of spellbinding, psychologically rich tales. Masterfully curated....Changes the way we think about the history, and the future, of the suspense genre.”—Megan Abbott

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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANNA SUMMERS

By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Petrushevskaya is best known for in Russia. “Proves that the literary tradition that produced Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Babel is alive and well.”—The Daily Beast PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 192 PP. • 978-0-14-312152-7 • $15.00

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Better Living Through Plastic Explosives “With Vancouver’s people and stunning natural beauty as her primary muses, in these ten stories Gartner dreams up all sorts of memorable bits....[This] isn’t just a nutty and inventive depiction of Gartner’s home base but a piercing exploration of human ethics, ambition, and folly. For such a funny writer, this is serious stuff.”—The Seattle Times PINTAIL PAPERBACK • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-06692-6 • $16.00

H A M P T O N FA N C H E R The Shape of the Final Dog and Other Stories The screenwriter of Blade Runner makes his debut with this extraordinary collection of stories about people and places that exist just outside our perceptions of space and time. “[Fancher's] fictions are full of irresistible stealthy voices, surreal U-turns, and vernacular wit—Buñuel meets Sherwood Anderson.”—Jonathan Lethem BLUE RIDER PRESS HARDCOVER • 288 PP. • 978-0-399-15823-0 • $25.95

D A N I E L L E E VA N S Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self “Whipsmart....Charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up....Fiercely independent, all of Evans’s characters struggle for a place in a world intent on fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 240 PP. • 978-1-59448-536-7 • $15.00

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Come Along with Me

D AV I D L E AV I T T a n d AARON THIER, editors

Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel FOREWORD BY LAURA MILLER

Course Name:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A haunting and psychologically driven collection that captures Jackson’s gothic vision of small-town America and the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson’s unfinished novel about a lonely widow, this collection features sixteen short stories—including her famous “The Lottery”—and three lectures she delivered during her last years.

23 Great Stories The stories in this volume represent the full spectrum of the art, featuring works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama by such masters as Edith Wharton, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Guy de Mauant, Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Anton Chekhov, R. K. Narayan, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alice Munro, and others.

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APRIL WILDER

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

This Is Not an Accident

Course Name:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Term:___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Anticipated Enrollment:_________________________

In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, this collection of stories presents a zany cast of characters spiraling toward self-destruction, savoring a poetic range of disasters.

TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR

VIKING HARDCOVER • 224 PP. • 978-0-670-02604-3 • $26.95

This rich anthology gathers together the most strange and fantastical German stories from the past 200 years, from the dark fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, to Kafka’s chilling satire “In the Penal Colony,” to the surreal fantasies of Kurt Schwitter in “The Onion.” “Introduces some of the most fascinating and powerful examples of this genre to English speakers, encouraging them to revisit that extraordinarily rich German culture....Wortsman dazzles.”—Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

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With hard-eyed realism, Klay takes readers to the front lines of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to show what happened there, and after, to the soldiers who bore the burden.

24 Modern African Stories

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And Other Stories of Iraq

TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN WRIGHT

Set against the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Includes contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and others.

In the first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective, Blasim transforms our understanding of the conflict and reveals himself a master of the short story as he mixes reportorial realism with flights of fantasy, horror with tenderness, and allegory with history.

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