Smart Contemp Fiction & Poetry
Explore a curated collection of smart contemporary fiction and poetry books. Discover thought-provoking reads and modern literary gems for discerning readers.
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Hotel World
by Ali Smith
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending …
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The Whole Story and Other Stories
by Ali Smith
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. …
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Driving the Heart and Other Stories
by Jason Brown
Thirteen stories, some on medical themes. The story, Detox, describes a detoxification clinic which caters to children, while The Coroner's Report deals with the routine …
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The Quick and the Dead
by Joy Williams
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures …
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night
by Thisbe Nissen
In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be …
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Crocodile Soup
by Julia Darling
Dear Gert, If you won't write to me, then could you send me some money? I believe you have a good job. A few hundred …
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Valencia
by Michelle Tea
The rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco's radical lesbian underground is laid bare in this action-packed novel, which follows a young gay woman down into the …