Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell’s first novel, The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), was a finalist for the 2008 NYPL Young Lions Award and was chosen as a best-book-of-the-year by the Austin American-Statesman, the Providence Journal and the Madison Capital Times. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and other literary journals. Her review-essays have appeared in The New York Times and the New Statesman. Her first collection of short stories is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2015. She teaches fiction at the University of Maryland.
12 entries by Emily Mitchell
The Passenger and Stella Maris embrace dystopia with lopsided degrees of success.
Shoko’s Smile
By Choi Eunyoung; translated by Sung Ryu
Melancholy permeates this spare, insightful collection from South Korea.
Seasons of Purgatory: Stories
By Shahriar Mandanipour; translated by Sara Khalili
These intricate, gut-wrenching tales of Iran offer no emotional quarter.
Milk Blood Heat
By Dantiel W. Moniz
This lush collection eschews easy drama for vivid truths.
Shoko’s Smile: Stories
By Choi Eunyoung; translated by Sung Ryu
Melancholy permeates this spare, insightful collection from South Korea.
Milk Blood Heat: Stories
By Dantiel W. Moniz
This lush new collection eschews easy drama for vivid truths.
Show Them a Good Time: Stories
By Nicole Flattery
Characters wrestle with ennui and make unexpected connections in this satisfying debut.
Madame Zero
By Sarah Hall
A palpable sense of place dominates the tales in this winning collection.
Madame Zero: 9 Stories
By Sarah Hall
A palpable sense of place dominates the tales in this winning collection.
Rethinking my initial reaction to the musician’s Nobel Prize.
The Summer She Was Under Water
By Jen Michalski
This arresting portrait of a dysfunctional family is stark but witty and beautifully observed.
The Last Days of California: A Novel
By Mary Miller
Believing the end times are near, a family of four drives cross-country in a quest to save souls.