6 Top short stories books like The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023 by Emily Stokes

Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023 by Emily Stokes

The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023

By: Emily Stokes

3.89

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the short stories plot in The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023 by Emily Stokes , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Cover of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

2. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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3. Limonov

By: Emmanuel Carrère

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

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4. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

5. Lives of Girls and Women

By: Alice Munro

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman-- is an insight… read more

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6. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

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  • fiction
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8. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück

9. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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10. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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11. The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023

By: Emily Stokes

3.89

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Cover of Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

13. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

14. Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

ADRIAN MATEJKA CATHERINE BARNETT ABDULKAREEM ABDULKAREEM ANDREA COHEN JODIE HOLLANDER STELLA W… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Granta 165: Deutschland by Thomas Meaney

15. Granta 165: Deutschland

By: Thomas Meaney

3.42

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 207, Winter 2013 by Lorin Stein

16. The Paris Review, Issue 207, Winter 2013

By: Lorin Stein

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Perfectbound

Geoff Dyer on the art of nonfiction: "The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial a… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
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17. Slightly Foxed 78: 'A Familiar Country'

By: Gail Pirkis

4.05

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Flora Watkins relives a golden summer • Christian Tyler goes fly-fishing • Ursula Buchan meets a li… read more

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18. Granta 166: Generations

By: Thomas Meaney

3.71

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have be… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2024 (Volume 224, Number 1)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.73

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

ROSALIE MOFFETT SID GHOSH ISABELLA DESENDI MELANIE TAFEJIAN COREY VAN LANDINGHAM ARIEL FRANCIS… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2024 (Volume 223, Number 5) by Adrian Matejka

20. Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2024 (Volume 223, Number 5)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.77

Format: None pages, None

Beth Ann Fennelly Jason Adam Sheets Marosa di Giorgio Sarah Maria Medina Sarah Barber Danielle… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, January/February 2024 (Volume 223, Number 4) by Adrian Matejka

21. Poetry Foundation Magazine, January/February 2024 (Volume 223, Number 4)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.71

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Poetry Foundation Magazine January/Feburary 2024 Volume 223, Number 4 RUTH AWAD D. A. POWELL P… read more

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  • poetry

11 must-read fiction books like The Paris Review, Issue 246, Winter 2023 by Emily Stokes

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Earth Angel

Madeline Cash

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Nothing Special

Nicole Flattery

3.06

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17 best-selling poetry books like Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Andrea Gibson

3.65

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