What do these eBooks have in common? They’re all $2.99 at the Amazon Kindle store, all throughout April! (We’re not fooling.)
For a mere 99 cents, you can now download F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Thank You for the Light,” which in 1936 was rejected by The New Yorker, whose editors said that it was “so curious and so unlike the kind of thing we associate with him and really too fantastic.”
Hemingway’s Best Work
In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words. His rebuttal?
For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.
They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work.
Speaking of Don DeLillo…
“If you’ve tried reading Don DeLillo’s fiction in the past and found it the literary equivalent of being whacked in the head with a sack full of quarters, his new short story collection, The Angel Esmeralda, is an ideal way to give him another chance.”
“This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.”
—from “Creation” by Don DeLillo in The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
This is the first collection of DeLillo’s short stories. On sale Nov 15.
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Listen to fiction: The Story Prize was awarded last week, and we have audio of the three finalists reading their work. First prize of $20K went to Anthony Doerr. Yowza!
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