The Mutual Friend

By Frederick Busch

Closing Arguments

By Frederick Busch

Tom Sawyer Abroad

By Mark Twain, Frederick Busch

What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology

By George Saunders, Raymond Carver, Cathy Smith Bowers, Andre Dubus, Denise Duhamel, Rebecca Curtis, Rawdon Tomlinson, Ira Sukrungruang, Conrad Hilberry, Tobias Wolff, Dorothy Allison, Jack Coulehan, Vern Rutsala, Sharon Solwitz, Wesley McNair, STEPHEN DUNN, Monica Wood, Patricia Goedicke, Peter Carey, S.L Wisenberg, Frederick Busch, Katherine Riegel, Jill McCorkle, Allison Joseph, Erin McGraw, Pam Houston, Donna Jarrell, Terrence Hayest, J.L. Haddaway, Junot Daz, Rhoda B. Stamell

This anthology of thirty works by some of our best contemporary American writers looks at our perennial American obsession: fat. It's everywhere, all around you, and maybe even on you. Now, America...

Take This Man

By Frederick Busch

Letters To A Fiction Writer

By Frederick Busch

Here Is A Collection Of Inspiring Letters From Some Of Our Most Renowned And Respected Fiction Writers On The Craft Of Writing And The Writing Life.--book Jacket. Speaking For Myself / Lee K. Abbot...

Street Games: Stories

By Rosellen Brown, Frederick Busch

"Her gifts are limitless.... Rosellen Brown can do anything with language."Cynthia Ozick "All the stories in this remarkable cycle of stories are assigned an address. Each is also a separate life,...

Hardwater Country

By Frederick Busch

Widow Water.--long Calls.--company.--the Lesson Of The Hôtel Lotti.--traveling Alone In Dangerous Places.--the Land Of The Free.--family Circle.--the Old Man Is Snoring.--is Anyone Left This Time O...

Best American Short Stories, 1977

By William Saroyan, Tim O'Brien, William S. Wilson, Stephen Minot, Leslie Epstein, Charles Newman, Anne Tyler, Tom Robbins, John Cheever, Jack Matthews, John William Corrington, John Sayles, Ann Copeland, Eugene K. Garber, Joyce Carol Oates, Phillip Damon, Patricia Hampl, Martha Foley, Frederick Busch, Baine Kerr, Price Caldwell

**Page # | Title | Author** xi | Foreword | Martha Foley (Foreward) 1 | The Trouble with Being Food | Frederick Busch (Esquire 1976) 15 | Tarzan Meets the Department Head | Price Caldwe...

The Good Parts

By JANE SMILEY, Philip Roth, Scott Spencer, SUSAN SONTAG, AMANDA FILIPACCHI, Robert Boswell, James McManus, Rebecca Goldstein, Charlotte Watson Sherman, J. H. Blair, Charles R. Johnson, OSCAR HIJUELOS, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Paula Huston, Michael Chabon, Kathy Acker, A. M. Homes, Robert Olen Butler, Joan Mellen, William Styron, Siri Hustvedt, Maria Flook, STEVE ERICKSON, Amy Bloom, Jennifer Egan, Various, Susanna Moore, Mary Caponegro, Pam Durban, Joan Wickersham, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Tallent, Lynne McFall, Dale Peck, Rick Moody, Harold Brodkey, Frederick Busch, Anna Monardo, E. L. Doctorow, Charles D'Ambrosio, Saul Bellow, Anchee Min, Mary Gaitskill, Gwendolyn M. Parker, Edited By J. H. Blair, Dani Shapior, Patrick Califia-Rice

They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our fa...