High Lonesome
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Cowboys Are My Weakness
by Pam Houston | 
The Safety of Objects
by A. M. Homes | 
Lust and Other Stories
by Susan Minot | 
Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
Not the End of the World
by Kate Atkinson | 
Going Away Shoes
by Jill McCorkle | 
The Assignation
by Joyce Carol Oates |
The Art of Living
by John Gardner | 
Werewolves in Their Youth
by Michael Chabon | 
Demonology
by Rick Moody | 
Bad Behavior
by Mary Gaitskill | 
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
by John Murray | 
Without a Hero
by T. Coraghessan Boyle | 
Women in their beds
by Gina Berriault | 
Break It Down
by Lydia Davis | 
Varieties of Disturbance
by Lydia Davis |
Tales of Ordinary Madness
by Charles Bukowski | 
South of No North
by Charles Bukowski |
Hot Water Music
by Charles Bukowski |
From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors. Lydia Davis once again proves in the words of the Los Angeles Times "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction."