Colm TA ibA n Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The South (1990)
  2. The Heather Blazing (1992)
  3. The Story of the Night (1996)
  4. The Blackwater Lightship (1999)
  5. The Master (2004)
  6. Brooklyn (2009)
  7. The Testament of Mary (2012)
  8. Nora Webster (2014)
  9. House of Names (2017)
  10. The Magician (2021)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Mothers and Sons (2006)
  2. The Empty Family (2010)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Seeing Is Believing (1985)
  2. Walking Along the Border (1987)
  3. Bad Blood (1988)
  4. Homage to Barcelona (1990)
  5. Dubliners (1990)
  6. Trial of the Generals (1990)
  7. The Sign of the Cross (1994)
  8. The Guinness Book Of Ireland (1995)
  9. The Kilfenora Teaboy (1996)
  10. Conversations and Portraits (1997)
  11. The Irish Famine (1999)
  12. The Modern Library (1999)
  13. Love in a Dark Time (2002)
  14. Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush (2002)
  15. Ireland (2008)
  16. All a Novelist Needs (2010)
  17. New Ways to Kill Your Mother (2012)
  18. On Elizabeth Bishop (2015)
  19. Henry James and American Painting (2017)
  20. Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (2018)
  21. Sean Scully: Walls of Aran (2020)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. Beauty in a Broken Place (2004)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Use of Reason (2006)
  2. The Shortest Day (2020)

The O. Henry Prize Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (By:,,Jennifer Egan,David Guterson) (2003)
  2. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 (By:,Richard Russo,Ann Patchett) (2005)
  3. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (With: ,Kevin Brockmeier) (2006)
  4. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,,,Lily Tuck) (2007)
  5. O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (By:,,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (2008)
  6. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (By:) (2009)
  7. PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 (By:) (2010)
  8. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (By:,,,Brian Evenson,,,,,,,,,,Lily Tuck) (2011)
  9. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 (By:Alice Munro,Wendell Berry,KevinWilson,,Anthony Doerr,,,,Lauren Groff) (2012)
  10. The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 (By:) (2012)
  11. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 (By:Kelly Link,Alice Munro,,,,,,,Lily Tuck) (2013)
  12. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 (By:) (2013)
  13. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 (By:) (2015)
  14. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 (By:Wendell Berry,Ottessa Moshfegh,,,Diane Cook,,,,LydiaFitzpatrick,,,,,,,Shruti Swamy) (2016)
  15. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 (By:) (2017)
  16. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (By:) (2018)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. New Writing From Ireland (1994)
  2. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999)
  3. New Writing 11 (2002)
  4. The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta (2004)
  5. The Proust Project (2004)
  6. Synge (2005)
  7. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (2006)
  8. From the Republic of Conscience (2010)

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Colm TA ibA n Books Overview

The South

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre to Spain, forces her to re examine all her relationships: to her lover, her art and the homeland she only thought she knew. ‘This is a strong and moving work of fiction about the hard truths of changing one’s life. Colm Toibin, like his characters, never says too much and never lets us grow too comfortable. A grand achievement’ Don DeLillo ‘A broad and beautifully worked canvas…
An imaginative, deeply felt and evocative tale’ Sunday Times

The Heather Blazing

A brilliant new novel from the author of The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award. In a story of stunning power, Toibin reconstucts the history of the relationships of an Irish judge a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully disconnected he is from other human beings.

The Story of the Night

‘A brave and remarkable novel, the impact of which no reader will shed’ Dermot Bolger, ‘Sunday Independent’. Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, ‘The Story of the Night‘ is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world.”The Story of the Night‘ is, in the end, a love story of the most serious and difficult kind. Toibin has told it with profound artistry and truth.’ Tobias Wolff. ‘Nobody before Toibin has made such honesty stand so clearly for political and personal integrity…
In each of his first three novels, he has invented a strong central character, but Garay is by far his most memorable’ Edmund White, ‘Sunday Times’. ‘A remarkable achievement…
The ease, the fluidity, the economy, the precision of Toibin’s masterly prose make this novel sheer pleasure to read’ Norman Thomas di Giovanni, ‘The Times’.

The Blackwater Lightship

‘This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction…
Toibin has crafted an unmissable read’ ‘Sunday Herald’. In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen’s adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another.’It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin shows himself to be an exceptional writer. Helen is estranged from both her mother and grandmother…
Toibin helps them make peace and he does it beautifully’ ‘Sunday Telegraph’. ‘He writes in spare, powerful prose and he is truly perceptive about family relationships which, at times, makes reading his stories incredibly painful. But this is a beautiful novel’ ‘Belfast News’. ‘We shall be reading and living with ‘The Blackwater Lightship‘ in twenty years’ ‘Independent on Sunday’. ‘Rises to heights of extraordinary beauty’ ‘Independent on Sunday’.

The Master

Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm T ib n captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, T ib n captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of T ib n’s portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility. T ib n is ‘a great and humanizing writer’ who describes complex relationships in ‘supple, beautifully modulated prose’ The Washington Post Book World. In The Master, he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages.

Brooklyn

From the award winning author of The Master, a hauntingly compelling novel by far T ib n’s most accessible book set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, Eilis cannot find a proper job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn visits the household and offers to sponsor Eilis in America to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood ‘just like Ireland’ she realizes she must go, leaving her fragile mother and sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and studies accounting at Brooklyn College, and, when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian, slowly wins her over with persistent charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. Eilis is in love. But just as she begins to consider what this means, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her new life. With the emotional resonance of Alice McDermott s At Weddings and Wakes, Brooklyn is by far T ib n s most inviting, engaging novel.

Mothers and Sons

Mothers and Sons‘ is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between Mothers and Sons. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Toibin as a great prose stylist of our time. ‘Colm Toibin is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity. Each of the nine stories is a snapshot of a point of crisis…
Toibin perfectly understands the instantaneous nature of the ideal short story; the sense that the pen is going straight into a major vein. These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted’ Kate Saunders, ‘Literary Review’. ‘The last story in this excellent collection is a superbly powerful tale of betrayal and desertion. Quintessential Toibin’ ‘Spectator’. ‘Moving…
beautifully captured moments of longing and loss…
Toibin is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer’ ‘Guardian’ ‘By turns surprising and illuminating, always beautifully written, ‘Mothers and Sons‘ places Toibin in the front rank of modern Irish fiction…
It may not be going too far to suggest Irish fiction has found its first Master of the new century’ ‘Scotland on Sunday’.

The Empty Family

From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm T ib n delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town, to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of T ib n’s stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained. Like T ib n’s celebrated novels, and his previous short story collection, Mothers and Sons, reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, The Empty Family will further confirm T ib n’s status as ‘his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power.’ Los Angeles TimesFrom the Hardcover edition.

Seeing Is Believing

When news of moving statues spread through Ireland like wildfire, bishops ran for cover from the most extraordinary phenomenon in Irish Catholicism in this century. A group of journalists and writers explore what really happened and as*sessed its significance.

Bad Blood

Soon after the Anglo Irish Agreement, when the tension was at a peak in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin travelled along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. ‘Bad Blood‘ tells of fear and anger, and of the historical legacy that has imprinted itself on the landscape and its inhabitants. Marches, demonstrations and funerals are the rituals observed by the communities that live along this route. With insight and intelligence, Toibin listens to the stories that are told, and unfolds for the reader, the complex unhappiness of this fraught border. ‘Toibin has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.’ Kate Kellaway, ‘Observer’. ‘High class reportage…
Toibin was conscientious about talking to real people, not just ‘names’ with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level’ ‘Irish Times’.

Homage to Barcelona

This book celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city’s founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and Dali. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Toibin witnessed in the 1970s. Written with deep knowledge and affection, ‘Homage to Barcelona‘ is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a unique Mediterranean port and an adopted home. ‘Toibin has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man’ ‘Observer’. ‘Having lived in Barcelona off and on since the 70s, Toibin knows all the fascinations of its sensuous Mediterranean history and lifestyle and ‘the most precious jewels in the city’s treasury of bars’…
Toibin is the perfect guide’ ‘Chicago Tribune’.

The Sign of the Cross

Colm Toibin is one of Ireland’s most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people’s lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism’s rituals and processions, its high minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross shaped wound that lies at his own center and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane.’A writer of considerable poetic gifts. Toibin’s descriptions are enlivening.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review’An extraordinary document.’ Entertainment Weekly

The Kilfenora Teaboy

Over the past twenty years, Paul Durcan has become an essential presence in Irish life, and is internationally known for his poetry. This is the first full length study of his work, a critical evaluation of the essential themes in his poems. Contributions from fellow poets Derek Mahon, Ruth Padel, Eamon Grennan and critics Edna Longley, Brian Kennedy, Fintan O’Toole make this a vital and significant as*sessment of one of the most original poets writing in the English language. The book’s title is that of one of his most famous poems.

The Irish Famine

The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing academic response to Cecil Woodham Smith’s 1963 classic, The Great Hunger, which, in addition to presenting a vivid and horrifying picture of the human suffering, made strong accusations against the British government’s failure to act. And while British governmental sins of omission and commission during the famine played their part, there is a broader context of land agitation and regional influences of class conflict within Ireland that also contributed to the starvation of more than a million people. This remarkable book opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Colm Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian Diarmaid Ferriter. An important piece of revisionist thinking, The Irish Famine: A Documentary is sure to become the classic primer for this lamentable period of Irish history.

The Modern Library

The authors have chosen the 194 books since 1950 that they consider to be the best. It includes some familiar names and some surprises. Witty and controversial, their aim is to encourage reading.

Love in a Dark Time

Colm T ib n knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like minded companions through reading. T ib n examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives, either by choice or necessity. The larger world couldn’t know about their sexuality, but in their private lives, and in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire defined their expression. This is an intimate encounter with Mann, Baldwin, Bishop, and with the contemporary poets Thom Gunn and Mark Doty. Through their work, T ib n is able to come to terms with his own inner desires his interest in secret erotic energy, his admiration for courageous figures, and his abiding fascination with sadness and tragedy. T ib n looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.

Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush

In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm T ib n examines the contradictions that defined Lady Gregory, an essential figure in Irish cultural history. She was the wife of a landlord and member of Parliament who had been personally responsible for introducing measures that compounded the misery of the Irish peasantry during the Great Famine. Yet, Lady Gregory devoted much of her creative energy to idealizing that same peasantry, while never abandoning the aristocratic hauteur, the social connections, or the great house that her birth and marriage had bequeathed to her. Lady Gregory’s capacity to occupy mutually contradictory positions was essential to her heroic work as a founder and director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin nurturing Synge and O’Casey, her battles with rioters and censors, and to her central role in the career of W. B. Yeats. She was Yeats’s artistic collaborator writing most of Cathleen N Houlihan, for example, his helpmeet, and his diplomatic wing. T ib n’s account of Yeats’s attempts by turns glorious and graceless to memorialize Lady Gregory’s son Robert when he was killed in the First World War, and of Lady Gregory’s pain at her loss and at the poet’s appropriation of it, is a moving tour de force of literary history. T ib n also reveals a side of Lady Gregory that is at odds with the received image of a chilly dowager. Early in her marriage to Sir William Gregory, she had an affair with the poet and anti imperialist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and wrote a series of torrid love sonnets that Blunt published under his own name. Much later in life, as she neared her sixtieth birthday, she fell in love with the great patron of the arts John Quinn, who was eighteen years her junior. ‘It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don’t.’ Lady Augusta Gregory writing to W.B. Yeats, referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World

Ireland

AgnSs Pataux has travelled extensively throughout Ireland, photographing its ancient, majestic, nature dominated landscapes. Her photographs intense and solitary speak to us of the primordial forces of nature, forces that have shaped both the extraordinary natural environs and the psyche of an enduring people, the Irish. Pataux is bound to particular sites, attracted by geological formations and manmade phenomena: the famine walls of the 1840s; the rugged Burren coast, blanketed in grey limestone, crisscrossed by splits and cracks that form a haunting geometry; Connemara with its wild and desolate bogs; County Antrim where nature has created the monolithic, hexagonal shaped stone pavements of the mythological Giant’s Causeway; and the coasts of the Aran Islands with their high cliffs beaten and broken by endless waves. Finally, the portraits of the men of these Emerald Islands show a people profoundly marked by their environment one that has shaped the people, the one that the people in turn have

All a Novelist Needs

This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin’s critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James’s life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist’s point of view.

Known for his acuity and originality, Toibin is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this collection of his writings on Henry James essential reading for literary critics. But he also writes for general readers. Until now, these writings have been scattered in introductions, essays in the Dublin Times, reviews in the New York Review of Books, and other disparate venues.

With humor and verve, Toibin approaches Henry James’s life and work in many and various ways. He reveals a novelist haunted by George Eliot and shows how thoroughly James was a New Yorker. He demonstrates how a new edition of Henry James’s letters along with a biography of James’s sister-in-law alter and enlarge our understanding of the master. His ‘Afterword’ is a fictional meditation on the written and the unwritten.

Toibin’s remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James’s well-known texts.

Dec. 18, 2010

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

In this fascinating, informative, and entertaining collection, internationally acclaimed, award winning author Colm T ib n turns his attention to the intricacies of family relationships in literature and writing. In pieces that range from the importance of aunts and the death of parents in the English nineteenth century novel to the relationship between fathers and sons in the writing of James Baldwin and Barack Obama, Colm T ib n illuminates not only the intimate connections between writers and their families but also, with wit and rare tenderness, articulates the great joy of reading their work. In the piece on the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams, T ib n reveals an artist ‘alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish’ and one profoundly tormented by his sister’s mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, or Thomas Mann and his children, or J.M. Synge and his mother, T ib n examines a world of family relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyle’s writing on his parents we see an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheever’s journals T ib n makes flesh this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and his children. The majority of these pieces were previously published in the Londron Review of Books, the New York Review Review of Books, and the Dublin Review. Three of the thirteen pieces have never appeared before.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (By:,,Jennifer Egan,David Guterson)

Since its establishment in 1919, the O. Henry Prize stories collection has offered an exciting selection of the best stories published in hundreds of literary magazines every year. Such classic works of American literature as Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers 1927; William Faulkner s Barn Burning 1939; Carson McCuller s A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud 1943; Shirley Jackson s The Lottery 1949; J.D. Salinger s For Esme with Love and Squalor 1963; John Cheever s The Country Husband 1956 ; and Flannery O Conner s Everything that Rises Must Converge 1963 all were O. Henry Prize stories.

An accomplished new series editor novelist and short story writer Laura Furman has read more than a thousand stories to identify the 20 winners, each one a pleasure to read today, each one a potential classic. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 also contains brief essays from each of the three distinguished judges on their favorite story, and comments from the prize winning writers on what inspired their stories. There is nothing like the ever rich, surprising, and original O. Henry collection for enjoying the contemporary short story.

The Thing in the Forest A. S. Byatt
The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr
Burn Your Maps Robyn Jay Leff
Lush Bradford Morrow
God s Goodness Marjorie Kemper
Bleed Blue in Indonesia Adam Desnoyers
The Story Edith Pearlman
Swept Away T. Coraghessan Boyle
Meanwhile Ann Harleman
Three Days. A Month. More. Douglas Light
The High Road Joan Silber
Election Eve Evan S. Connell
Irish Girl Tim Johnston
What Went Wrong Tim O Brien
The American Embassy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kissing William Kittredge
Sacred Statues William Trevor
Two Words Molly Giles
Fathers Alice Munro
Train Dreams Denis Johnson

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 (By:,Richard Russo,Ann Patchett)

Mudlavia
Elizabeth Stuckey French

The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier

The Golden Era of Heartbreak
Michael Parker

The Hurt Man
Wendell Berry

The Tutor
Nell Freudenberger

Fantasy for Eleven Fingers
Ben Fountain

The High Divide
Charles D Ambrosio

Desolation
Gail Jones

A Rich Man
Edward P. Jones

Dues
Dale Peck

Speckle Trout
Ron Rash

Sphinxes
Timothy Crouse

Grace
Paula Fox

Snowbound
Liza Ward

Tea
Nancy Reisman

Christie
Caitlin Macy

Refuge in London
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The Drowned Woman
Frances De Pontes Peebles

The Card Trick
Tessa Hadley

What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (With: ,Kevin Brockmeier)

A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self deluding obsessiveness to fairy tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,,,Lily Tuck)

An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na ve, here is fiction that consistently defies our expectations. Selected from thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines, the twenty prize winning stories are accompanied by essays from each of the three eminent jurors on which stories they judged the best, and observations from all twenty prizewinners on what inspired them.

The Room
William Trevor

The Scent of Cinnamon
Charles Lambert

Cherubs
Justine Dymond

Galveston Bay, 1826
Eddie Chuculate

The Gift of Years
Vu Tran

The Diarist
Richard McCann

War Buddies
Joan Silber

Djamilla
Tony D Souza

In a Bear’s Eye
Yannick Murphy

Summer, with Twins
Rebecca Curtis

Mudder Tongue
Brian Evenson

Companion
Sana Krasikov

A Stone House
Bay Anapol

The Company of Men
Jan Ellison

City Visit
Adam Haslett

The Duchess of Albany
Christine Schutt

A New Kind of Gravity
Andrew Foster Altschul

Gringos
Ariel Dorfman

El Ojo de Agua
Susan Straight

The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro

O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (By:,,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

An annual collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is studded with extraordinary settings and characters: a teenager in survivalist Alaska, the seed keeper of a doomed Chinese village, a young woman trying to save her life in a Ukrainian internet caf . Also included are the winning writers’ comments on what inspired them, a short essay from each of the three eminent jurors, and an extensive resource list of literary magazines.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (By:)

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened New York City. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 (By:)

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 brings to life a dazzling array of subjects: a street orphan in Malaysia, a cowboy and his teenage bride, a Russian nanny in Manhattan, a nineteenth century Nigerian widow, and political prisoners on a Greek island. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Them Old Cowboy Songs Annie Proulx Clothed, Female FigureKirstin Allio The Headstrong Historian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Stand By Me Wendell Berry Sheep May Safely GrazeJess Row Birch Memorial Preeta Samarasan VisitationBrad Watson The Woman of the House William Trevor The Bridge Daniel Alarc n A Spoiled ManDaniyal Mueenuddin Oh, DeathJames Lasdun Fresco, Byzantine Natalie Bakopoulos The End of My Life in New YorkPeter Cameron ObitTed Sanders The Lover Damon Galgut An East Egg Update George Bradley Into the GorgeRon Rash MicrostoriesJohn Edgar Wideman Some Women Alice Munro Making GoodLore Segal For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www. ohenryprizestories. com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (By:,,,Brian Evenson,,,,,,,,,,Lily Tuck)

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 contains twenty unforgettable stories selected from hundreds of literary magazines. The winning tales take place in such far flung locales as Madagascar, Nantucket, a Midwestern meth lab, Antarctica, and a post apocalyptic England, and feature a fascinating array of characters: aging jazzmen, avalanche researchers, a South African wild child, and a mute actor in silent films. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Your Fate Hurtles Down at YouJim Shepard Diary of an Interesting YearHelen Simpson MelindaJudy Doenges NightbloomingKenneth Calhoun The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor K lm n Once LivedTamas Dobozy IceLily Tuck How to Leave HialeahJennine Cap Crucet The JunctionDavid Means Pole, PoleSusan Minot Alamo PlazaBrad Watson The Black Square Chris Adrian Nothing of ConsequenceJane Delury The Rules Are the RulesAdam Foulds The Vanishing AmericanLeslie Parry CrossingMark Slouka Bed DeathLori Ostlund WindeyeBrian Evenson SunshineLynn Freed Never Come BackElizabeth Tallent Something You Can t Live WithoutMatthew Neill Null For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www. ohenryprizestories. com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

This unique anthology illustrates the full range of Irish fiction from Gulliver’s Travels to young contemporary writers like Roddy Doyle and Emma Donoghue. Including self contained sections from novels as well as short stories, all the most important writers are represented, from Swift and Sterne through Joyce, Beckett and Wilde to modern masters like Banville and William Trevor. Colm Toibin’s long introduction describes the contexts and particular strengths of Irish fiction.

The Proust Project

‘Discovering Proust is like wandering through a totally unfamiliar land and finding it peopled with kindred spirits and sister souls and fellow countrymen…
They speak our language, our dialect, share our blind spots and are awkward in exactly the same way we are, just as their manner of lacing every access of sorrow with slapstick reminds us so much of how we do it when we are sad and wish to hide it, that surely we are not alone and not as strange as we feared we were. And here lies the paradox. So long as a writer tells us what he and only he can see, then surely he speaks our language.’ from the preface by Andr AcimanFor The Proust Project, editor Andr Aciman asked twenty eight writers Shirley Hazzard, Lydia Davis, Richard Howard, Alain de Botton, Diane Johnson, Edmund White, and others to choose a favorite passage from In Search of Lost Time and introduce it in a brief essay. Gathered together, along with the passages themselves and a synopsis that guides the reader from one passage to the next, these essays form the perfect introduction to the greatest novel of the last century, and the perfect gift for any Proustian. FSG will co publish The Proust Project in a deluxe edition with Turtle Point Press, Books & Co., and Helen Marx Books.

Synge

A celebration of and homage to J.M. Synge: the man and his legacy.

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