LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage - [A] worship song to writers and readers.--Oprah Daily

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

In his introduction, Saunders writes, We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art--namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it? He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction. The book's introduction provides, for the first time, a comprehensive history of the short short story, from its early roots and hitherto unknown early publications and appearances, to its current state and practice. This guide is a must for anyone in the field of short fiction who teaches, writes, and is interested in its genesis and practice.

FEATURING ESSAYS FROM:
Steve Almond, Rusty Barnes, Randall Brown, Mark Budman, Stace Budzko, Robert Olen Butler, Ron Carlson, Pamelyn Casto, Kim Chinquee, Stuart Dybek, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Sherrie Flick, Vanessa Gebbie, Tom Hazuka, Nathan Leslie, Michael Martone, Julio Ortega, Pamela Painter, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jennifer Pieroni, Shouhua Qi, Bruce Holland Rogers, Robert Shapard, Deb Olin Unferth, Lex Williford

You Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From fighting fires in houses and apartments, to the extrication of a victim under a train, to struggling to save lives alone in the back of an ambulance, You Have A Kind Face takes the reader down a path most don't travel.

In Hemingway's Art of Revision, John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author's celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of how Ernest Hemingway crafted his distinctive prose through a rigorous process of revision.

Ranging from two vignettes in the first version of In Our Time through early touchstones such as Indian Camp and The Killers to later masterpieces including Fathers and Sons, Beall's study considers the modernist influences, aesthetic choices, and experimental effects that characterized Hemingway's approach to the short story. Revisions to Big Two-Hearted River, for example, were not simply cuts and omissions, but involved adding paragraphs to slow down the narrative and represent Nick Adams's careful observations of fish as he watched their shadows on the river. For A Way You'll Never Be, Hemingway's revisions developed Nick's interior monologues, manic lecture about grasshoppers, and wacky sense of humor to show the character restoring a sense of emotional balance despite his traumatic memories of being wounded.

By drawing attention to the meticulous omissions, additions, and replacements that shaped these texts, Beall reveals how extensively and richly Hemingway revised his drafts. Hemingway's Art of Revision gives a detailed view of a great prose stylist at work.

Cuentos verdaderos reúne las crónicas y los reportajes que Rosa Montero, una de las voces más importantes del periodismo y la literatura de las últimas décadas, publicó en El País durante el periodo 1978-1988. Escritos la mayoría de ellos con las técnicas de la mejor ficción y alejada ya en el tiempo la urgencia por contar la actualidad, se leen hoy como si fueran relatos. Es la literatura abriéndose paso impetuosamente.

La autora afirma en el prólogo: «Estas crónicas nos trasladan a territorios remotos. Hay otros mundos, pero están en éste, como decía Éluard. En ocasiones resultan tan insólitas, tan alucinantes, que me siento un poco como esas presentadoras de las antiguas ferias que se desgañitaban anunciando los gabinetes de curiosidades: el Hombre Serpiente, la Mujer Barbuda... Aquí estoy, en efecto, plantada ante la puerta. Y simplemente digo: pasen y vean .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The new book by Rosa Montero, winner of the National Prize for Spanish Literature

Reality elevated to the ranks of literature

The Atocha massacre, an attempted coup d'état, the flooding of Riaño, the Pope's visit, Miguel Ríos's Rock and Ríos tour, the trial of the accused killers of El Nani, the drug epidemic, terrorism... The 1980s were a tumultuous decade in Spain, as the country made the transition from dictatorship and collectively embraced democratization and modernization. As evidenced by this book, it was a period that was at once turbulent, multi-faceted, violent and hopeful.

True Tales is a compilation of reports and accounts published by Rosa Montero, one of the most important voices in Spanish journalism and literature, in Spain's El País newspaper between 1978 and 1988. Using sophisticated literary techniques, and several decades removed from the urgency that propelled them, these pieces read more like fiction today, marking their transition into literature.

As Montero explains in the prologue: These accounts transport us to far-off territories. There are other worlds, but they are in this one, as Éluard said. They are sometimes so strange, so unbelievable, that I feel a little like a carnival barker for a sideshow like the Snake Man or the Bearded Lady... And that's really all I'm doing: standing at the door and saying, 'come inside; see for yourselves.'

Step into a world of laughter and nostalgia with 100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors.

This captivating collection offers a treasure trove of 100 funny and true tales, carefully curated to bring joy and warmth to the hearts of elderly readers.

With large print font size and easy-to-read stories, this book provides an inspiring collection that will uplift and entertain readers for hours on end.

Benefits of the Book:

- Remember the Moments: Immerse yourself in 100 heartwarming stories that will make you smile and reminisce about the good old days.

- Clear and Easy Reading: With its large print font size, this book ensures effortless reading for seniors, allowing them to enjoy each story without strain.

- Enjoy 100 heartwarming stories: With 20 tales dedicated to each decade from the 50s to the 90s, offering readers a delightful trip down memory lane.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to bring laughter and joy into the lives of your elderly loved ones.

Get your book today and make their day brighter with this heartwarming collection.

Technical Details:

- Large Format: This book is designed in a large format, making it easy for seniors to handle and read comfortably.

- High-Quality Glossy Cover: The cover of this book is crafted with a high-quality glossy finish, adding durability and visual appeal.

- Printed on Heavy-Duty Paper: Each page is printed on heavy-duty bright white paper, ensuring that the text is crisp and clear for easy reading.

- Perfect for Gifting: With its wonderful content and beautiful presentation, this book makes a thoughtful and meaningful gift for any occasion.

A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers.

A writer, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, is a reader who is moved to emulation. New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III took that idea and invited acclaimed authors to write about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it--short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves.

Here is Richard Russo on Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike's A&P, Tobias Wolff on Hawthorne's Wakefield, Michael Cunningham on James Joyce's The Dead. Readers will gain new insight into these masterfully written stories but also on the contributors' own lives and work.

The fifty contributors are T.C. Boyle, Russell Banks, Richard Bausch, Robert Boswell, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Madison Smartt Bell, Ron Carlson, Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Cunningham, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Emma Donoghue, Stuart Dybek, Dagoberto Gilb, Julia Glass, Mary Gordon, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Jane Hamilton, Ron Hansen, Paul Harding, Ann Hood, Pam Houston, Gish Jen, Charles Johnson, Phil Klay, Dennis Lehane, Lois Lowry, Colum McCann, Sue Miller, Rick Moody, Antonya Nelson, Bich Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, Ann Patchett, Edith Pearlman, Jayne Ann Phillips, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Anna Quindlen, Ron Rash, Richard Russo, Dani Shapiro, Mona Simpson, Jess Walter, Tobias Wolff, and Meg Wolitzer.

Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading.

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

El Dr. Roberto Arévalo Araujo MD, FACP (Renato Bettio), nació en El Salvador. Al terminar su bachillerato fue a México a continuar sus estudios y se graduó como Médico y Cirujano de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, en el Distrito Federal, en 1970. Luego hizo tres años de Medicina Interna en el Oakwood Hospital (Dearborn, MI) y en el Colegio de Medicina y Dentistería de New Jersey (CMDNJ). Prosiguió, por tres años más, sus estudios en la Subespecialidad de Hematología y Oncología Médica, en el mismo CMDNJ. Está certificado en Medicina Interna, al igual que en Hematología y en Oncología Médica. Es Fellow del Colegio Americano de Médicos (FACP). Es fundador del Centro de Cáncer y Hematología del Condado de Pasco y Pinellas, en Florida, USA, centro que incluye radioterapia y quimo/inmunoterapia.

Es fundador de la Medical Mission of Mercy/Medical Mission International, que tiene el objetivo de llevar, gratuitamente, ayuda quirúrgica, oftalmológica y médica, a los pacientes indigentes del este de El Salvador, labor que fue reconocida por el Congreso de El Salvador y la Nominación, en el año 2002, para el Premio Nobel de la Paz.

Ahora ofrece para ti, lector querido, un poco de la inspiración que abriga en su alma, narrando historias sobre la impunidad y miseria que afectan a y transcurren en las vidas de compatriotas centroamericanos. También se adscribe a la perceptible fe de los pobres, los de siempre, en los que el apego a la vida no se apaga, a los que, a pesar del sufrimiento, su filosofía de la vida les indica que a pesar de todo es mejor estar aquí.

In 1834 two short stories appeared, The Queen of Spades, by Pushkin, and The Cloak, by Gogol. The first was a finishing-off of the old, outgoing style of romanticism, the other was the beginning of the new, the characteristically Russian style. We read Pushkin's Queen of Spades, the first story in the volume, and the likelihood is we shall enjoy it greatly. But why is it Russian? we ask. The answer is, It is not Russian. It might have been printed in an American magazine over the name of John Brown. But, now, take the very next story in the volume, The Cloak. Ah, you exclaim, a genuine Russian story, Surely. You cannot palm it off on me over the name of Jones or Smith. Why? Because The Cloak for the first time strikes that truly Russian note of deep sympathy with the disinherited. It is not yet wholly free from artificiality, and so is not yet typical of the purely realistic fiction that reached its perfected development in Turgenev and Tolstoy.

Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with stories? This children's storybook has it all

This is an excellent read for beginning and early readers. Each story is easy to read and exciting for younger readers!

This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and read aloud at home.

. 6 cute stories for kids
. Excellent for beginning and early readers
. Cute short stories that are great for a quick bedtime story
. This 'stories' is great for a quick story and to be read aloud with friends and family.

Your child will be entertained for hours!

An inspiring story how life can change with a gentle touch. Family is so important with changes in life.

This is my first book. I live in a small town and grew up twelve miles from here. Have always wanted to write but never took the chance. I am hoping to do this again.