Reading Rooms: America's Foremost Writers Celebrate our Public Libraries with Stories, Memoirs, Essays, and Poems
810.80355 REA 2000
Amy Tan, Annie Dillard, Eudora Welty, Stephen King, Nikki Giovanni and others.
Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures
810.8035 OUT
Photos and brief literary excerpts from Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Pat Conroy, Tom Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote and others.
The New Mystery
808.83872 NEW
P.D. James, James Ellroy, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, Borges, Westlake, DeLillo, Oates.
The Reason Why: An Anthology of the Murderous Mind
808.8035 REA
Excerpts from writing of all types on the subject of murder. Tolstoy, Poe, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, P.D. James, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and others.
A Call to Character: A Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Development of Values for You and Your Children
808.8035 CAL
Eclectic collection that includes Helen Keller, Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Richard Feynman, Gertrude Stein, Sandra Cisneros, Malcolm X, E.B. White, Alice Walker and others.
The Norton Book of Sports
810.80355 NOR
John Updike, Norman Mailer, Bill Russell, Garrison Kiellor, Tom Wolfe, James Thurber and many others.
The Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports
810.80355 TWE
Damon Runyon, Philip Roth, Red Smith, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler, Gene Tunney and many more.
The Writer in the Garden
810.8036 WRI
Brief pieces on gardens and gardening by Charles Kuralt, M.F.K. Fisher, Jamaica Kincaid and many others.
The Best Spiritual Writing
810.8038 BES
Brief pieces by Annie Dillard, Philip Levine, Edward Hirsch (on Zora Neale Hurston) and others.
American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology
810.8032 AME
Eclectic, quirky collection by Twain, Langston Hughes, Thurber, Elizabeth Bishop and others.
The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature
810.8032 LIT
Amy Tan, William Stafford, Zane Grey, Gary Snyder, M. Scott Momaday, many others.
The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction
810.8032 OXF 1997
Wide-ranging, with writing from Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Czeslaw Milosz, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Abbey, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsburg, W.H. Auden and others.
The Greenwich Village Reader: Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscences, 1872-2002
810.8032 GRE 2001
John Reed, Henry James, John Updike, Jack Kerouac, Edmund Wilson, Allen Ginsberg and others.
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
810.8032 WRI
Large. Includes Isaac Bashevis Singer, Henry Miller, Helen Keller, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsburg, Ralph Ellison.
In My Life: Encounters with the Beatles
810.8035 IN
Allen Ginsberg, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary, Philip Larkin and others remember meeting the Fab Four.
Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
808.8035 IMA
Italo Calvino, Alan Lightman, Martin Gardner, J.G. Ballard and others.
Life: A User's Manual
808.8038 LIF
Zora Neale Hurston, Joseph Campbell, Mother Theresa, Proust, Einstein, M.F.K. Fisher and others.
Legal Fictions: Short Stories about Lawyers and the Law
808.839355 LEG
Garrison Keillor, John Mortimer, Franz Kafka, Tom Wolfe, Irwin Shaw, Nadine Gordimer and others.
The Best American Humor, [1994, 1995, ...]
808.87 BES
John Updike, Philip Roth, Garrison Keillor, Andrei Codrescu, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Mark Childress and others.
Closers: Great American Writers on the Art of Selling
810.8035 CLO
David Mamet, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Harry Crews, M.F.K. Fisher and others.
What is a Man? 3,000 years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virture
808.8035 WHA
Large and literary, with brief pieces by Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Anthony Trollope and others.
Fathers and Sons: An Anthology
810.80352 FAT
Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief
810.8035 SOR 2001
Jamaica Kincaid and others.
Writing Between the Lines: An Anthology on War and its Social Consequences
808.8035 WRI
Mostly from the Vietnam War, by American, Vietnamese, and a few Central American writers.
A Treasury of Great Mysteries
808.83 Hay
New Stories From the South: The Year's Best, 2001
813.0108 NEW
Lee Smith, John Barth, Jane R. Shippen and others.
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
814.508
Ninety pieces, perfect for spare-moment reading, by Andrei Codrescu, Diane Ackerman, Michael Ondaatje, Rita Dove, Charles Simic, Tim O'Brien, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barry Lopez, Li-Young Lee, Kathleen Norris and others.
The Editors' Choice: New American Stories
813.0108 EDI
Includes Thomas McGuane, Tobias Wolff, Margaret Atwood and Tess Gallagher.
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
813.0108 YOU
Memorable stories introduced by the writers who remember them: James Agee (introduced by Annie Dillard), Donald Barthelme (T. Coraghessan Boyle), Anton Chekov (Eudora Welty), Molly Giles (Amy Tan), Alice Munro (David Leavitt), Vladimir Nabokov (Jim Shepard), and many others.
Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
813.0108 SUDDEN
Quick reads from comedian Roy Blount, Jr., John Updike, Tobias Wolff, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Grace Paley, Joyce Carol Oates, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway and many others.
I Know Some Things: Stories about Childhood by Contemporary Writers
813.0108352 I
Includes Amy Tan, Alice Munro, Spalding Gray, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara and Jamaica Kincaid.
