Living with Snakes

Daniel Curley

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 96
• In Daniel Curley's stories, passionate rage and cool, clear hatred alter the terms of even the most basic human relationships, etching odd patterns on... Lees meer

Sorry I Worried You

Gary Fincke

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 105
• In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate... Lees meer

Spit Baths

Greg Downs

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 106
• With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of t... Lees meer

The People I Know

Nancy Zafris

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 56
• The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it's Lorne, perched on a sofa as a weddin... Lees meer

Thieves I've Known

Tom Kealey

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 78
• In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover man... Lees meer

The Current That Carries

Lisa Graley

• Hardcover | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 18
• This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livesto... Lees meer

Hold That Knowledge

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 109
• Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have ap... Lees meer

Rituals to Observe

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 112
• These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though holidays can occasion... Lees meer

Copy Cats

David Crouse

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 37
• Featuring seven stories and a novella, David Crouse's powerful debut collection depicts people staring down the complicated mysteries of their own ide... Lees meer

Faulty Predictions

Karin Lin-Greenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 24
• In Karin Lin-Greenberg's Faulty Predictions , young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In "Editorial... Lees meer

A Brief History of Male Nudes in America

Dianne Nelson, Dianne Nelson Oberhansly

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 25
• In these stories, Dianne Nelson illuminates that vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. Whether it is a father trying to ... Lees meer

The Piano Tuner

Peter Meinke

• Hardcover | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 97
• In The Piano Tuner , Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger... Lees meer

Spinning Away from the Center

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 111
• These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home--thin... Lees meer

The Jungle Around Us

Anne Raeff

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 17
• "You'll see how beautiful it is in the morning--jungle all around us," says one of the characters in Anne Raeff's story collection, referring to the w... Lees meer

Tell Borges If You See Him

Peter Lasalle

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 69
• To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking--that's what life can be like for the people in these eleve... Lees meer

Nervous Dancer

Carol Lee Lorenzo

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 101
• The lives on view in Nervous Dancer are complex and precarious. Speaking their familial idioms in tones and cadences determined well before they ever ... Lees meer

Faulty Predictions

Karin Lin-Greenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 24
• In Karin Lin-Greenberg's Faulty Predictions , young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In "Editorial... Lees meer

The Send-Away Girl

Barbara Sutton

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 62
• Barbara Sutton's quirky debut collection tracks the emotional journeys of characters struggling to find harmonious relationships with the people they ... Lees meer

Ate It Anyway

Ed Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 27
• In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortabl... Lees meer

Down on the Sidewalk

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 114
• Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eye... Lees meer

The Pale of Settlement

Margot Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 55
• In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who str... Lees meer

Bad Kansas

Becky Mandelbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 89
• The eleven beautifully crafted stories in Bad Kansas reveal the complicated underbelly of the country's most flown-over state and the quirky character... Lees meer

The Dance Boots

Linda Legarde Grover

• Hardcover | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 72
• In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the ... Lees meer

From the Bottom Up

Leigh Allison Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | nr. 43
• Leigh Allison Wilson is, as one of her narrators says of the country music lover, "an inveterate truth seeker who, deep down, believes every word is a... Lees meer