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  • Everybody Loves Somebody

    by Joanna Scott ...
    Joanna Scott's unparalleled gift for storytelling has inspired hyperbole from critics and her devoted fanbase, which includes some of the most preeminent writers of our time. But not since Various Antidotes, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, has she turned her talents toward short stories.At the seaside wedding of two lovers kept apart by the caprices of fate, a doting uncle looks on while ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Follow Me

    A Novel

    by Joanna Scott ...
    On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin's invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally's life, it's an impulsive decision with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. Soon she abandons her home to begin a daring journey of self-creation, the truth of which she entrusts only ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

    And Other Stories

    by William H. Gass ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • De Potter's Grand Tour

    A Novel

    by Joanna Scott ...
    A gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at seaIn 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nocturnals

    by Diane Ackerman, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea, Dinaw Mengestu, Rick Moody, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, Peter Straub, Fred Moten, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series Book 72 - Conjunctions
    This spring 2019 edition of Bard College's literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs.Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here—including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberation

    A Novel

    by Joanna Scott ...
    Caught in a perilous divide between life and death, Mrs. Rundel is both a woman struggling to catch her breath, and the child she was 60 years earlier who struggled to survive the violence of the liberation of Italy and experienced the everlasting innocence of first love from an enemy soldier. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sanctuary

    The Preservation Issue

    by Peter Straub, Martine Bellen, Rick Moody, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Howard Norman, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, John Edgar Wideman, Diane Ackerman, Dinaw Mengestu ...
    Series Book 70 - Conjunctions
    Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom seed-saver, the family photographer, the Monuments Men. Old two-by-two Noah and taxonomist Linnaeus. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tinkerbell and the Magic of Rushy Marsh Farm

    by Monica McCourt ...
    Illustrated by Joanna Scott ...
    In this beautiful illustrated children's book, a small horse learns to follow her big dreams and manage her big feelings-perfect for fans of What Do You Do with an Idea? and Ruby Finds a Worry.Dream it! Believe it! Achieve it!Tinkerbell is much smaller than the other horses at Rushy Marsh Farm, especially the ribbon-winning jumpers like Zecilie. She dreams of competing in a show-jumping ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Careers for Women

    A Novel

    by Joanna Scott ...
    New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change . . .Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public relations maven Lee K. Jaffe -- affectionately known to her loyal staff as Mrs. J. Having left Cleveland, Maggie has come to believe that she can write ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Excuse Me While I Disappear

    Stories

    by Joanna Scott ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and "greatly gifted and highly original artist" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (New York Times).Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Various Antidotes

    Stories

    by Joanna Scott ...
    "A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."-- The New York Times Book ReviewThe miraculous, transformative stories of Joanna Scott's Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories within are those of obsession and brilliance, of the ultimately human recognition that the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD