Short stories, and lots of them. January brings us new short fiction collections from Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Baxter, Colm Toibin, and even a brand new collection of previously unpublished work from Kurt Vonnegut. All this and more.
1. Bird Cloud: A Memoir by Annie Proulx
© Scribner
Scribner, January 2010
In this memoir, Annie Proulx recounts building her dream house on a square mile of land next to Wyoming's North Platte River.
2. Caribou Island by David Vann
© Harper
Harper, January 2010
Caribou Island is David Vann's dark novel about Gary and Irene, a married couple attempt to rekindle their marriage by building a cabin on a desolate, storm-wracked island.
3. Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2010
Suspenseful tales of love and obsession make up this collection of short stories from National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.
4. Gryphon by Charles Baxter
© Pantheon
Pantheon, January 2010
Charles Baxter's latest short story collection features the acclaimed title story along with 15 from previous collections and seven new stories that will delight readers with ordinary protagonists who meet with extraordinary circumstances.
5. The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Toibin
© Scribner
Scribner, January 2010
Life and loss are the subject matter for this collection of stories from Irish author, Colm Toibin.
6. Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
© Visual Editions
Visual Editions, January 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated, Eating Animals) sculpted Tree of Codes from The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz by cutting out words to form a completely new story, thus devising something between art and literature that no eReader could ever do justice.
7. While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
© Delacorte
Delacorte, January 2010
While Mortals Sleep contains 16 previously unpublished short stories from early in Kurt Vonnegut's career, a treasure trove for Vonnegut fans who have had to wait, well... only since Look At the Birdie (2009), the last collection of unreleased Kurt Vonnegut stories.
