Paper Doll

By Jim Shepard, Jim Shepard

Childhood

By Jim Shepard, Jona Oberski, Ralph Manheim

A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child’s eyes Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a sear...

The Best American Short Stories - 1991

By Barry Hannah, ALICE ADAMS, John Keeble, Sherman Alexie, Roxana Robinson, David Gates, Lan Samantha Chang, Chris Offutt, Laura Glen Louis, Robert Olen Butler, CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN, Tobias Wolff, Jim Shepard, Jonathan Wilson, Ann Cummins, Carol Anshaw, Katrina Kenison, John Rolfe Gardiner, Carolyn Ferrell, Tony Earley, Alice Elliott Dark, Nancy Krusoe, Thom Jones, Stuart Dybek

Here in a single volume is the finest short fiction of the year, selected by distinguished novelist and short story writer Alice Adams. She brings together 20 outstanding works and, in her introduc...

The Best American Short Stories 2000

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Despite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY). To usher in the new millenn...

The Best American Short Stories 2000

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Hypnotic short stories of life in the Southwest that “emanate suspense, inspiring page-turning tension” (The Washington Times). A young woman is pushed, quite literally, to the edge on a desolate m...

The Best American Short Stories 2017

By T. Coraghessan Boyle, Leopoldine Core, Jess Walter, Curtis Sittenfeld, Mary Gordon, Fiona Maazel, Chad B. Anderson, Lauren Groff, Jim Shepard, Noy Holland, Emma Cline, Jai Chakrabarti, Kyle McCarthy, Patricia Engel, Amy Hempel, Maria Reva, Danielle Evans, Eric Puchner, Heidi Pitlor, Meg Wolitzer, Kevin Canty, Sonya Larson

The New York Times –bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others. “If you know exactly what you are going...

The Best American Short Stories 2017

By T. Coraghessan Boyle, Leopoldine Core, Jess Walter, Curtis Sittenfeld, Mary Gordon, Fiona Maazel, Chad B. Anderson, Lauren Groff, Jim Shepard, Noy Holland, Emma Cline, Jai Chakrabarti, Kyle McCarthy, Patricia Engel, Amy Hempel, Maria Reva, Danielle Evans, Eric Puchner, Heidi Pitlor, Meg Wolitzer, Kevin Canty, Sonya Larson

The New York Times –bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others. “If you know exactly what you are going...

Unleashed: Poems By Writers' Dogs

By Jim Shepard, Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard

Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them. List of contributors: Edward Albee,  Jennifer A...

The Best American Short Stories 2002

By Arthur Miller, Carolyn Cooke, Richard Ford, Tom Mcneal, Michael Chabon, Leonard MICHAELS, Sue Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Jim Shepard, Ann Cummins, Katrina Kenison, Akhil Sharma, Meg Mullins, Alice Munro, E. L. Doctorow, Jill McCorkle, Melissa A. Hardy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Lordan, Mary Yukari Waters, Alice Mattison, Karl Iagnemma

Denis Johnson meets Flannery OConnor in this luminous collection of short stories about the collision of cultures, genders, and generations in the American Southwest. Set mainly amid Indian reserva...

Writers At The Movies: Twenty-Six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-Six Memorable Movies

By Jim Shepard, Jim (Ed.) Shepard