{"product_id":"9780892554331","title":"Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShort\u003c\/em\u003e offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShort\u003c\/em\u003e offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.\u003c\/p\u003e Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, \u003cem\u003eShort\u003c\/em\u003e opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western countries, written over five centuries by more than 200 contributors, including major authors of every era. Fables, histories, aphorisms, anecdotes, faux dictionary entries, a faux job application, hint fiction, lists, tableaus, meditations, chants, rants, and much more. Intensely pleasurable.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Contributors include: Montaigne, von Kleist, Leopardi, Poe, Baudelaire, Bierce, Chopin, Stein, Jacob, Woolf, Kafka, J. Roth, Toomer, Borges, Queneau, Kunitz, Beckett, Milosz, Cortazar, Paz, Barthes, Calvino, O'Hara, Merwin, Lispector, Transtromer, Sanchez, Edson, Simic, Atwood, Valenzuela, Wideman, L. Davis, Komunyakaa, A. Carson, Forche, Harjo, Hempel, Wenderoth, Keret, B. Marcus, A. Bender, Eggers, B. Lerner, T. Brimhall.","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073975927024,"sku":"9780892554331","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780892554331_p0.jpg?v=1763849355","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780892554331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}