Krasny, Michael
Summary: "This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.3 KRA PART 1Call number: CD 808.3 KRA PART 2
DeLillo, Don.
Summary: Collects nine short stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELKrasny, Michael
Summary: "This course takes you on an exciting ride through an itinerary that samples 23 of the world's greatest short stories. The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.31 MASCarlson, Ron.
Summary: "In this essay, [Carlson, the author] offers a full range of notes for the writer and gives rare insight into a veteran writer's process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short story 'The Governor's Ball'"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 CARChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEOtfinoski, Steven.
Contents: Where do I start? -- The plot thickens -- Write on! -- Getting it 'write' -- What's so funny? -- What's so scary? -- Flights of fancy -- Blasts fro the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Paperback, Call number: J 808.3 OTFSummary: This is Melville's sardonic and symbolic story of a copyist at a Wall Street law firm who refuses to conform, responding to all requests with, "I prefer not to." Autobiographical in its despair over the public's failure to understand the writer, prophetic in its foreshadowing of 20th-Century Absurdism, "Bartleby the Scrivener" provides a window into the work of Melville and a convincing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfants brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 831.01 COLSummary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GRESummary: In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E.T.A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in German literature. Twentieth-century authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka continued to deepen and strengthen the tradition. New five German short stories--each a well-known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC FIVRiordan, Rick
Summary: "Magic, monsters, and mayhem abound when Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase meet Carter and Sadie Kane for the first time in this short story collection"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIOSummary: "The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEBSummary: An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MEMHemingway, Ernest
Summary: The definitive collection by the man whose craft and vision remains an enduring influence on generations of readers and writers. Contains twenty-one stories not included in the 1938 omnibus "The first forty-nine."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hemmingway 1987Summary: "Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWHenderson, Joe
Contents: In 'n out -- Punjab -- Serenity -- Short story -- Brown's town -- In 'n out (alternate take).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HENLomborg, Bjørn
Contents: The short story: higher temperatures -- Global warming: the many worries -- The politics of global warming.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 LOMButcher, Jim
Summary: "The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue-and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth, justice, and the American way in this must-have short story collection."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: "A short story collection that expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider from author Anthony Horowitz"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2019
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Summary: A collection of short stories by the "Queen of Suspense" features her first published short story, "Stowaway."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clark 2015Harris, Charlaine.
Summary: A collection of every short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress heroine of the best-selling Southern Vampire novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: A collection of every short story featuring Sookie Stackhouse, the telepathic waitress heroine of the best-selling Southern Vampire novels.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009