A collection of short stories, selected by the South's most venerable writers who are all affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, celebrates the distinctness of the Southern experience, and features writers as Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, William Henry Lewis, and others. ...

Gumbo in Mobile, Dreamland ribs in Tuscaloosa, noveau cuisine in Birmingham, Chris's hot dogs in Montgomery, and pond-raised catfish fried in the Black Belt -- as varied as that menu, so are the stories and excerpts in this collection by women writers from Alabama. Comedy, allegory, and folklore are here. Subjects varying from childhood initiation, to spousal abuse, to race relations, to AIDS are here. Plots involving murder, romance, ...

Following the success of last year's debut volume, this Best American Gay Fiction collection broadens the range of contributors, styles, and genres. Here is outstanding new work by such well-known writers as Andrew Holleran, Dale Peck, Michael Nava, and David Wojnarowicz alongside fresh talents who capture the full spectrum of gay life today -- African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. The impressive writing presented here -- all drawn ...

Forty-five North Carolina writers and poets contribute original pieces influenced by works in the museum's collection ...

These 13 original stories cover a broad range of duck and goose hunting Also includes 60 color etchings watercolors and oil paintings by noted sporting artist Brett J Smith ...

Woman's Hour Book of Short Stories 2 contains nineteen more of the best stories by women writers broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour This time their theme is "the younger generation". Some of the twentieth century's most talented women writers are included in the collection. ...

From Frederick Phillip Grove's classic "Snow" to the contemporary delights of Carol Shields' "Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass, " prairie writing forms a literary landscape as abundant as the ranchlands, farm fields, forests and cityscapes it portrays. Great Stories from the Prairies celebrates that richness. Here you will find traditional images of swirling wind, dust and snow set in vast expanses of land and sky. Nestled against these is the ...

Over the post twenty years, judges such as Robert Penn Warren, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Tabias Wolff, Alice McDermott, Frank Conroy, and Bharati Mukherjee have selected the best collections from the hundreds submitted annually for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the most prestigious awards of its kind. Winning has helped launch the careers of a score of previously undiscovered authors, many of ...

Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton created a new literary form when he began writing stories about his adventures with wild animals in the 1890s. His first stories were compiled in the book, "Wild Animals I Have Known," that became Stephen Zimmer was Director of the Seton Memorial Library at Philmont Scout Ranch at Cimarron, New Mexico for twenty years. For this collection he contributed a biographical introduction of Ernest Thompson Seton and the ...

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections. The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material. <P><BR>"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --"The New York Times Book Review ...