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A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s … more

From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best. A dejected teenager discovers that the unive… more

Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson Karen Joy Fowler Karen Russell Jeffrey Ford among many othersContains STORIES by the AMAZING Jeffrey Ford, the FABULOUS Karen Joy Fowler, the UNLIKELY Kelly Link, t… more

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls ar… more

n The Good Books, over 50 writers—including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more—choose the works in translation they’d bring to a great global book swap. Also featured: talks and conversation… more

JOLIE HOYT IS A GOOD SOUTHERN GIRL living in Hendrix, a small Florida Panhandle town. The daughter of a Pentecostal preacher who sells insurance on the side, and the best friend of a lively beauty who moves to the big city to pursue a caree… more

A gracefully disconcerting collection of stories by the winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize.Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual,… more

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how to truly live.Growing up in the… more

In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this st… more

The first new book in a decade from the acclaimed author of “State of Grace,” “Escapes,” “Taking Care,” and “Breaking and Entering.”Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing bo… more

January 2005Kelly Link: Lady.Gavin J. Grant: Tiger.Jedediah Berry: Drone.fictionKaren Russell — Help WantedSarah Micklem — “Eft” or “Epic”Bruce McAllister — MaryJohn Trey — At the Rue des Boulangers Bridge CafeBenjamin Rosenbaum & Paul Melk… more

In his introduction to this issue, Bradford Morrow, founder of Conjunctions magazine, writes:“’The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis’ is narrated by a young adolescent named Larry Rubio who, with his three Anthem City, New Jersey, buddies Mondo,… more