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  • Mercy

    A Novel

    by Joan Silber ...
    **Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA rich and nuanced story beginning with a moment of fear and abandonment that will reverberate across decades and change the course of many lives, by a beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author**In the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ideas of Heaven

    A Ring of Stories

    by Joan Silber ...
    Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea BarrettIntense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Size of the World

    A Novel

    by Joan Silber ...
    Love and family loyalty meet up with the allure of far-off vistas in elegant new fiction by an acclaimed novelist.A richly imagined novel—set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America—about men and women whose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how many "riffs there are to being human." Travelers, colonials, immigrants, and returned ex-pats ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fools

    by Joan Silber ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award"'Linked' doesn't begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Emotionally, it's astounding…[A] beautiful, intricate, and wise collection." — New York Times Book ReviewWhen is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Household Words

    A Novel

    by Joan Silber ...
    Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award"Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." — Chicago TribuneThe year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secrets of Happiness

    by Joan Silber ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength in this "expansive and elegantly crafted novel" (Fresh Air, NPR)."Rich with the complexities of life . . . the stories create a world made ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Improvement

    A Novel

    by Joan Silber ...
    The national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them from one of America's most gifted writers of fiction, "our own country's Alice Munro" (The Washington Post).Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect, yet as she visits him ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Art of Time in Fiction

    As Long as It Takes

    by Joan Silber ...
    Series series Art of...
    Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lucky Us

    by Joan Silber ...
    "A love story of our time." —Ha Jin, author of The Boat RockerOnce upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after some hesitations they decided, finally, to marry-only to look up and find their world caving in around them.Sexy, vivacious Elisa, of the miniskirts and tiny ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why I Like This Story

    by Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2024-25

    by John Skoyles, Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, Kellam Ayres, Justin Balog, Craig Burnett, Alex Chertok, Zachary Colter, Margarita Cruz, Stuart Dybeck, Ori Feinberg, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Taylor Light, Leslie McIntosh, Pablo Medina, Nancy Mitchell, Rosalie Moffett, Jarrett Moseley, Alexandra Napier, Alafia Nicole Sessions ...
    The Winter 2024-25 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2024-25 Issue, edited ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mercy

    by Joan Silber ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser, Nan McNamara, Christina Moore, Alyssa Bresnahan, Helen Laser, Nick Walther ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    The rich and nuanced story of a moment of fear and abandonment that reverberates across decades and changes the course of many lives, by beloved PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Joan SilberIn the gritty East Village of 1970s New York, Ivan and his best friend, Eddie, a popular local bartender, are dabbling in drugs following a short tour of Europe. One night, as ... Read more

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