From the Book - First edition.
Ten things that art can do
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Charles Dickens, Great expectations
Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
George Eliot, Middlemarch
George Gissing, New Grub Street
The collected stories of Mavis Gallant
Complimentary toilet paper: some thoughts on character and language
Michael Jeffrey Lee, George Saunders, John Cheever, Denis Johnson
Edward St. Aubyn, the Patrick Melrose novels
Paul Bowles, The stories of Paul Bowles and The spider's house
Patrick Hamilton, Twenty thousand streets under the sky: a London trilogy; The slaves of solitude; Hangover Square: a story of darkest Earl's court
Lolita, just the dirty parts: on the erotic and pornographic
Gitta Sereny, Cries unheard
Andrea Canobbio, Three light-years
Mark Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Baby
Karl Ove Knausgaard, My struggle
Elizabeth Taylor, Complete short stories
Louisa May Alcott, Little women
Charles Baxter, Believers
Debora Levy, Swimming home
Alice Munro, Lives of girls and women
Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach
Reiner Stach, Is that Kafka? 99 finds
What makes a short story?
In praise of Stanley Elkin.