{"product_id":"9780801881787","title":"So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series","description":"Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eDa Vinci's Bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo the Story Goes\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the best short fiction of the series, works exhibiting wit, elegance, and wisdom. Writing about a wide variety of subjects and in a multitude of styles, the twenty writers collected here share a mastery of language and an extraordinary ability to entertain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Akins from \u003ci\u003eWorld Like a Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Her Book\"Steve Barthelme from \u003ci\u003eAnd He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Zorro\"Glenn Blake from \u003ci\u003eDrowned Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Marsh\"Jennifer Finney Boylan from \u003ci\u003eRemind Me to Murder You Later\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Thirty-six Miracles of Lyndon Johnson\"Richard Burgin from \u003ci\u003eFear of Blue Skies\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Bodysurfing\"Avery Chenoweth from \u003ci\u003eWingtips\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Powerman\"Guy Davenport from \u003ci\u003eDa Vinci's Bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e, \"A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg\"Tristan Davies from \u003ci\u003eCake\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Counterfactuals\"Stephen Dixon from \u003ci\u003eTime to Go\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Time to Go\"Judith Grossman from \u003ci\u003eHow Aliens Think\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Rovera\"Josephine Jacobsen from \u003ci\u003eWhat Goes without Saying\u003c\/i\u003e, \"On the Island\"Greg Johnson from \u003ci\u003eI Am Dangerous\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Hemingway's Cats\"Jerry Klinkowitz from \u003ci\u003eBasepaths\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Basepaths\"Michael Martone from \u003ci\u003eSafety Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Safety Patrol\"Jack Matthews from \u003ci\u003eCrazy Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Haunted by Name Our Ignorant Lips\"Jean McGarry from \u003ci\u003eDream Date\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Last Time\"Robert Nichols from \u003ci\u003eIn the Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Six Ways of Looking at Farming\"Joe Ashby Porter from \u003ci\u003eLithuania\u003c\/i\u003e, \"West Baltimore\"Frances Sherwood from \u003ci\u003eEverything You've Heard Is True\u003c\/i\u003e, \"History\"Robley Wilson from \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Lost Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Hard Times\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020220940528,"sku":"9780801881787","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780801881787_p0.jpg?v=1763726223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780801881787","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}