Continuing its tradition of offering the most stimulating and eclectic collection of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, The Beacon Best returns this year with the acclaimed writer Junot Díaz as guest editor. The 2001 edition features no...
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. T...
Junot Diaz burst into the literary world with "Drown," a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ("Newsweek"). His eagerly awaited first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life ...
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutan...
This collection of new fiction, essays, and interviews -- including celebrated authors Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, Maureen McHugh, and Charlie Jane Anders -- conjures visions of political, environmental, and gender dystopias. Some stretch the i...
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of farawa...
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda .....