Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers

Edited by: Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, and more.

Drifting

By: Katia D. Ulysse

This mesmerizing, lyrical debut explores the lives of Haitian families aspiring to escape hardship and an earthquake’s devastation.

New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

Edited by: Karen Lord

Discover some of the best in speculative short fiction from the Caribbean’s up-and-coming voices.

The Nicotine Chronicles

Edited by: Lee Child

Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine’s scintillating alter egos.
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Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean

By: Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press

A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Prayer for the Living

By: Ben Okri

Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.

Speculative Los Angeles

Edited by: Denise Hamilton

The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes—each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.

*While supplies last, all paperback copies of Speculative Los Angeles purchased through our website will be SIGNED by all 14 contributors and editor Denise Hamilton!

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Tales

By: Amiri Baraka

This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion, featuring writing that is provocative, witty, bitter, and aggressive.

The Tower of the Antilles

By: Achy Obejas

Obejas’s stories of contemporary Cuba explore how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.

Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

By: Marc Ribot

Iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection.

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Cosmogramma

By: Courttia Newland

Forthcoming: 11/2/21

A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Stories and Essays

By: Tim McLoughlin

Forthcoming: 3/1/22

An enthralling collection of short fiction and nonfiction that draw upon McLoughlin’s three-decade career in the criminal justice system.

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before March 1, 2022.

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