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Short Stories: Five Decades | Irwin Shaw
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Irwin Shaws collection of powerful stories that set the standard for post-war American authorsIrwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorkers fiction pages in the 1930s and 40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as The Eighty-Yard Run, a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and Main Currents in American Thought, in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaws writing as demonstrated in these pagesmaintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosophers soul.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the authors estate.
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Caroline2
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Can anyone recommend a really good short story collection please? Preferably thriller/suspense/horror or sci-fi?? 🤔

RaeLovesToRead The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov or The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 4y
Caroline2 @RaeLovesToRead oh both of those sound brill, thanks. 😃 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells ...it‘s a set of novellas though. The first one is 4y
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Caroline2 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa OH yes! I have that on my shelf. Thanks for the reminder. 😉 👍 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Caroline2 Oh, read it then! I‘m rereading it now and even enjoying it as a reread. 4y
Liatrek It‘s so funny the only reason I started watching GOT was because Sean Bean was in the lead and I knew he couldn‘t die🤦🏾‍♀️ I hadn‘t read the books lol 4y
RamsFan1963 Neil Gaiman is my favorite short story writer. Any of his collections, Smoke & Mirrors, Fragile Things, or Trigger Warning, are highly recommended. 4y
Caroline2 @Liatrek Oh no!!! 🤦‍♀️ 😆 he‘s a great actor. And so lovely, I met him once at a premier. He gave me his autograph and a kiss 😘 😯 ☺️ 4y
Caroline2 @RamsFan1963 thanks, I‘ll check him out. 👍 4y
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JenlovesJT47
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Since I got so behind on everything, I decided to send my #shortstoryswap package straight from Amazon. Be on the lookout @BookNAround for 2 separate packages (I have no idea why they do it that way!). I‘m sorry for having to do it like this but I didn‘t want it to be late. I hope you like it!

#bookmail

BookNAround Oh goodie. Now I can play innocent when the boxes from amazon that I ordered myself arrive. If I wait to open any of them, they could potentially all be swap packages, right? 😂 6y
JenlovesJT47 @BookNAround hey, anything is possible!! 😅 6y
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WeeziesBooks
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I forgot to post that I sent out my #shortstoryswap package out! @JenlovesJT47 it should be there by Monday!

JenlovesJT47 Yay! 6y
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TCLinrow
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And here I thought my time off work would be relaxing 😓 since I got back from Liverpool it's been non-stop!
On the plus side, my short story swap has been posted today and I got home to find my package had arrived 😄😁
#ShortStorySwap @CSeydel ❤🧡💛

CSeydel Yippee! 📚🎁📦 6y
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CrowCAH
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My #ShortStorySwap box arrived; can‘t wait to open it next month! Thanks you @Ddzmini 😘

Ddzmini 😝🎉🎊📦 7y
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BeansPage
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AaaaaaaaaHhhhhhhh!!!!! #BookMail I can't open. Argh! Going to have to have my husband hide this from me!
😵🤪😳😱😬😲🙃😜
@Elle_Skeldon @CSeydel
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ElleSkel I got one today too and I seriously want to open it! 7y
Ddzmini Don‘t we open them on the first 😳 7y
BeansPage @Ddzmini if I remember correctly we can't open them until after the 6th 7y
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Ddzmini I‘m really getting my days mixed up today 😖 7y
BeansPage @Ddzmini LOL I think we ALL do 😜 7y
ElleSkel Did I mess up the date on this one? 7y
shadowspeak17 I just checked the email, and opening day is July 11th, so @Elle_Skeldon what you wrote on the box is correct. 👍🏽 @TheReadingMermaid @Ddzmini 7y
BeansPage @shadowspeak17 Thanks sweetie 🤗💕 7y
CSeydel I thought 7-11 would be easy to remember! (Maybe just easier for me bc it‘s my birthday) 6y
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merelybookish
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A view of South Table Mountain from the Golden Post Office, where I just mailed off my #shortstoryswap. Hope it reaches Malaysia by July 11th. 🤞🤞
@CSeydel

Tanisha_A Lovely view! 7y
BookishMe Hihi... I have sent you couple of titles from TBD in case my package (posted last week) doesn't get there before opening day ;)) fingers crossed TBD delivers within a week. 6y
merelybookish @BookishMe Oh my, that is so kind. You really didn't need to do that. But thank you! I will let you know when packages arrive! I hope you get yours on time too! 6y
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CSeydel Just checking in whether your short story package arrived? 6y
merelybookish @CSeydel Thanks for checking. I meant to let you know that I'm out of town and left before a parcel had arrived. I won't be back till next week but I can ask my catsitter if anything has arrived. 6y
CSeydel No problem! Just wanted to make sure I follow up with all participants in case anybody comes up empty. Just tag me whenever you get it 😁 6y
merelybookish @CSeydel Will do! 🙂 6y
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CrowCAH
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Signed up for the #ShortStorySwap

Sign up close: June 7
Open date: July 11
Budget: $20

Follow @CSeydel for the sign up form!

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Tanisha_A
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There is a short story month?! 😶
Link to the recommendations - https://bit.ly/2IG7bvT

Trashcanman I don't know if you like Vonnegut but his book of short stories, Welcome to the monkey house, is awesome. 7y
Tanisha_A @Trashcanman Hey! Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out. 😀 7y
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Finished book #365 of 2017 and logged it into Goodreads. Since I turned 30 this month, I can identify with a lot of the writers here. I can't wait to see them grow in their journeys as writers - I enjoyed their short stories here.
Sadly this book is from an indie press and isn't logged in Litsy, so I can't formally review it via their app. It was good though!

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Lola
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Short stories delivered to my inbox? Yes, please. http://theseasonofstories.com/
“This year, Season of Stories is featuring hand-picked short stories from acclaimed authors such as…Lee Child, James McBride, Denis Johnson, and Aimee Bender. Each week, you'll get a new short story delivered to your inbox in four installments…just the right amount to read while commuting, waiting in line, or during your lunch break.”

AceOnRoam Just signed up. Is it free ? Lee Child yay, although I don't think he's writing his own books anymore he must have "staff" /shadow writers. 7y
Lola @AceOnRoam It‘s free! I hope the Lee Child piece is his own. After all, it‘s just a short story. Surely he can do that by himself, right? 🙄😛🙃 7y
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Here are the top five for July! Cast your vote!

https://surveyplanet.com/5945d8adf09d543e1d50028a

SharonGoforth Don't know if I'll be able to participate, but all of these are excellent choices!! 8y
mdemanatee So many good short story collections! 🙌🏻 8y
bitterbear @SharonGoforth Seriously... 8y
litsybookclub @SharonGoforth @mdemanatee @bitterbear Would love to have you join us! 8y
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We had 17 nominations for July's book - A Short Story Collection. Use link below to rank each book from 1-5 with one being the book you least want to read and 5 the book you most want to read. Descriptions of the books are included in the survey AND on our website if you want to check out the books before voting.

SURVEY
https://surveyplanet.com/5944106bca25bd6dcc370866

NOMINATIONS INFO
http://kulikrachel.wixsite.com/litsybookclub/nominations

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litsybookclub
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We hope you are enjoying this month's book - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Live discussion will be this Sunday @ 5pm ET.

It's time to pick our July book. The theme is "A Collection of Short Stories." Complete rules are posted above ?? but remember that it must be 450 pages or less and at least three months old. To nominate tag the book in the comments below.

We hope you are having a wonderful summer!

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FountainBookstore Yep. I've got a short fiction addiction. (With apologies to the amazing bookstore in South Carolina "Fiction Addiction" for borrowing the phrase) (edited) 8y
DrexEdit I haven't been in the litsy book club before so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to nominate. If I am then I suggest Drown by Juno Diaz 8y
JessFerg Flash fiction at its finest. 8y
JessFerg There are no words to describe the wondrousness of these stories. (As my fake vocabulary proves.) 8y
litsybookclub @DrexEdit Anyone can nominate. We would love to have you join us! 8y
crhealey (edited) 8y
litsybookclub NOMINATIONS NOW CLOSED 8y
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The 1st tale in SHORT STORIES: 5 DECADES is "The 80-Yard Run," a masterpiece about the tragedy of living an unexamined life. And yet there are works just as good throughout this beast of a book. He lost nothing off his fastball in 50 years! #2015top5

Kensalikof "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" is also one of his best. 8y
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