Shorts
for long, lazy summer days |
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Take them along to
the beach, a country picnic,
a sail on the bay…wherever your summer travels take you.
Here are just a few of our recommendations from books published this year. |
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BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS |
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CALIFORNIA POETRY: FROM THE GOLD RUSH TO THE PRESENT |
| One in a series of
annual anthologies presenting some of our finest writers. See also
Best
American Travel, Best American
Sports, and Best
American Short Stories. New volumes are published in the fall. |
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This collection of the works of over 100
writers is the first historical anthology to provide a comprehensive
survey of our state's poetry. |
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A
CHANCE MEETING by Rachel Cohen |
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FOUND—THE BEST LOST, TOSSED AND
FORGOTTEN ITEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD by Davy Rothbart |
| Surveying American art and literature during
the century between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, Cohen
reveals significant and often surprising connections among 30 trailblazing
individuals in these wonderfully anecdotal and gracefully linked essays. |
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A provocative and original book, this funky collection
of letters, flyers and other miscellany manages to pull laughter and
drama from the flotsam and jetsam of society. |
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THE
LEMON TABLE by Julian Barnes |
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LITTLE
BLACK BOOK OF STORIES by A.S. Byatt |
| What the characters from vastly different
backgrounds, time periods, and countries have in common in this
superb collection is the vantage point of age. In most of these
tales, what
goes unsaid carries more weight than what is spoken . |
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This haunting collection blends elements of folk and fairy
tales with the darker elements of everyday life. |
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THE
LUCKY ONES by Rachel Cusk |
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OUR
KIND by Kate Walbert |
| A young pregnant woman wrestles with changes in her life,
while a new father tries to reconnect with his younger self, a daughter
searches for a lost childhood, and a mother reaches out to the offspring
she cannot understand in this novel told through connected stories. |
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Eight housewives from the 1950s, having divorced
and seen their children grow up, wonder at their prospects and
band together for support in a shared search for purpose, love,
and identity in a modern
world in which their roles are no longer clear. |
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SWEET
LAND STORIES by E.L. Doctorow |
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THAT DISTANT LAND by Wendell Berry |
| Sweet treats with settings ranging from a religious commune
to the White House rose garden. |
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Three previous collections plus four new pieces chronicling
the lives of the inhabitants of Berry ’s imagined Port William,
Kentucky. |
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THE
WHOLE STORY by Ali Smith |
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WIVES & LOVERS by Richard Bausch |
| This collection of short fiction explores the complex web
of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made in life. |
Bausch probes the tensions that seethe in families and
marriages in three razor-sharp novellas. |
Print copy of Summer Shorts (pdf)
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