Short Story Anthologies

It falls down. It burns up. It goes Beatnik in the fifties and crazy in the sixties. It stays elegant throughout. Every city has its stories, but San Francisco seems to have more than most. From Jack Kerouac on working on the railroad to Anne Lamott on getting kicked out of the cafe scene, and from Jack London on the 1906 earthquake to Tom Wolfe on the acid tests of the 1960s, San Francisco Stories collects the most outstanding writings about the city from some of the most distinguished authors of the last 150 years.

An anthology of insightful reflections on the concept of suicide includes passages from the poetry of Sylvia Plath, commentary by William Styron, a glimpse at the constructed literary despair of Madame Bovary, and more. Original.

Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has played host and muse -- from Walt Whitman and William Faulkner to Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston. With a striking new cover, this anthology captures the vibrancy -- and variety -- of New Orleans as it casts its most seductive spell.

Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. It's "a writer's town . . . a fighter's town," according to Nelson Algren, and this anthology proves it. With a striking new cover, Chicago Stories collects the most evocative writing on the city, its gritty realism, and indomitable spirit.

A selection of stories, articles, and poems about the Southwest, by D.H. Lawrence, Carl Jung, Sam Shepard and others

In Florida Stories, Tales from the Tropics by Elmore Leonard, Cabeza de Vaca, Tennessee Williams, Damon Runyon, Joan Didion, John D. McDonald, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and John Sayles, you will be drawn into an alluring collection of stories, essays and poems reflecting tropical Florida - a tropical paradise where everything happens all the time.

1994 Chronicle Books HB, 1st printing, full number line. Ideal pillow talk volume-what else could be expected from a book entitled Lust? Authors include:Sappho, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Dante and even Peggy Lee's Fever.

Alaska Stories is filled with an array of classic and recent voices--native Alaskans and newcomers, environmentalists and hunters, essayists and fiction writers. From the childhood view of the expansive frontier in Robert Coles's 'Distances' to the ever-contracting world that fatally injured explorer V. Swanson recorded in his journal. Alaska Stories takes readers to a land that occupies a distinctly mythic place in American history.

Gathers essays, stories, poetry, and excerpts from novels that feature the landscape, history, and people of Texas

San Francisco is the ideal place for murder, mystery, and malevolence. Far beneath the swinging coils of the Golden Gate Bridge, in a dank set of abandoned prison cells, a strange caretaker with evil intentions plots his nefarious deeds. Atop the hills of Pacific Heights, an innocent young woman rides an evening cable car, stalked by her handsome fiance. In a seedy bar on Fifth Street, a stone-faced man awaits his next victim. These and other eerie and exciting stories can be found in San Francisco Thrillers, the first anthology of mysteries and thrillers set in the City by the Bay, and illustrated with the haunting vintage photographs of Francis Bruguiere.

From the drifting sand dunes and quaint shops of Provincetown to Nantuckets whitewashed verandas and craggy beaches, Cape Cod Stories evokes all the rustic beauty and history of this picturesque area in the words of Americas best writers. With a striking new cover, this popular anthology is the next best thing to a summer on the Cape.