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by Jamel Brinkley ...

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Elle, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Commonweal MagazineWinner of the Maya Angelou Book Award. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Kirkus Prize</st... ... Read more

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A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Elle, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Commonweal MagazineWinner of the Maya Angelou Book Award. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Kirkus Prize</st...
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A Lucky Man

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by Jamel Brinkley ...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONIn the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONIn the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he
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Ploughshares Summer 2022 Guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley

by Jamel Brinkley, Maria Anderson, Alexia Arthurs, Marian Crotty, Ben Fergusson, Rav Grewal-Kök, JP Gritton, Arinze Ifeakandu, Dana Liebelson, Gabriel Louis, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, Iheoma Nwachukwu, Analía Villagra, Vernon Wilson ...

As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of workthat, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into ... Read more

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As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of workthat, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into
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Ploughshares Spring 2018 Guest-Edited by Lan Samantha Chang

by Lan Samantha Chang, Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, Deborah Eisenberg, Marilynne Robinson, Major Jackson, Jamel Brinkley, Tameka Cage Conley ...

The Spring 2018 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Lan Samantha Chang writes in her introduction, “It is essential to share aspiration and fear, ... Read more

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The Spring 2018 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's four issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Fall and Winter issues are staff-edited.As guest-editor Lan Samantha Chang writes in her introduction, “It is essential to share aspiration and fear,
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A Lucky Man

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways ... Read more

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways
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Witness

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Narrated by Karen Chilton, Korey Jackson ...

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7 hours 48 min

What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see?In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive ... Read more

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What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see?In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive
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Right by My Side

by David Haynes ...

**Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American MidwestA Penguin Classic**With wit and realism, David Haynes presents a different kind of Holden Caulfield in fifteen-year-old Marshall Field Finney, an ordinary, sullen teenager who discovers storytelling as a way ... Read more

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**Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American MidwestA Penguin Classic**With wit and realism, David Haynes presents a different kind of Holden Caulfield in fifteen-year-old Marshall Field Finney, an ordinary, sullen teenager who discovers storytelling as a way
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Right by My Side

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Narrated by Kevin R. Free, Leon Nixon ...

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6 hours 56 min

Marshall Field Finney was named after a department store and dropped like a hot potato when his mother suddenly packed up and left. Now Marshall lives with his hard-drinking father in a crackerbox house and rides a yellow bus through beautiful St. Louis County to his mostly white suburban school. Caught at a crossroads, Marshall is desperately searching for something to believe in. At stake is ... Read more

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Marshall Field Finney was named after a department store and dropped like a hot potato when his mother suddenly packed up and left. Now Marshall lives with his hard-drinking father in a crackerbox house and rides a yellow bus through beautiful St. Louis County to his mostly white suburban school. Caught at a crossroads, Marshall is desperately searching for something to believe in. At stake is
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The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia ...

Narrated by Tara Koehler ...

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6 hours 58 min

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique LalondeA girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by ... Read more

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The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique LalondeA girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and mother escapes the confines of her oppressive life and body by
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The Best American Short Stories 2020

by Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor ...

Narrated by Curtis Sittenfeld, Soneela Nankani, Peter Ganim, Robert Petkoff, Kevin T. Collins, Brittany Pressley, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Gabra Zackman0, Emily Woo Zeller1, Tracey Leigh2, Priya Ayyar3, Rebecca Lowman4, Ilyana Kadushin5, Suzanne Toren6, Cindy Kay7, Ramon De Ocampo8, Michael Crouch9, Robert Fass0, Gary Bennett1 ...

Series series Best American
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16 hours 19 min

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the ... Read more

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“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the
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Daddy

Stories

by Emma Cline ...

Narrated by Natasha Soudek ...

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7 hours 21 min

**From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—EsquireNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of ... Read more

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**From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—EsquireNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY**An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of
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Homesick for Another World

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by Ottessa Moshfegh ...

Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe ...

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8 hours 25 min

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our timeOttessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015.Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our timeOttessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015.Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short
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