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The Wild Goose

By Ogai Mori & Ogai Mori
Translated by Burton Watson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists

Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

“The Sting of Death” and Other Stories

By Toshio Shimao
Translated by Kathryn Sparling
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Fiction
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A translation of “The Sting of Death” and other stories by Japanese short fiction writer Shimao Toshio

Settlers of Unassigned Lands

By Charles McLeod
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies
Series: 21st Century Prose

A provocative short story collection planted at fertile and futile crossroads of self and surroundings

American Homes

By Ryan Ridge
Subjects: Fiction
Series: 21st Century Prose

An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit

Full Metal Jhacket

By Matthew Derby
Subjects: Fiction
Series: 21st Century Prose

Following his celebrated debut collection Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places

A Heart Beating Hard

By Lauren Foss Goodman
Subjects: Fiction
Series: 21st Century Prose

A story about the passed-along People, about how we are the same and how we are different, about how we become who we are and how we protect our most private places from the cold glare of all that we cannot control

Michigan Legends

Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State

By Sheryl James
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, Fiction, History, American History

A collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage

Open Wound

The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont

By Jason Karlawish
Subjects: Fiction, History, American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Literature, History

A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan

Lebanese Blonde

By Joseph Geha
Subjects: Fiction
Series: Sweetwater Fiction: Originals

The story of two Lebanese immigrant cousins who concoct a scheme to import a potent strain of hashish into the United States, using the family's mortuary business as a cover

Faithful Unto Death

By Becky Thacker
Subjects: Fiction, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

Arsenic shatters a family in 19th-century Michigan

Curious Attractions

Essays on Fiction Writing

By Debra Spark
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory

Lively and engaging essays on aspects of the writer's craft from an acclaimed novelist

Good for the Jews

By Debra Spark
Subjects: Fiction
Series: Michigan Literary Fiction Awards

A funny, sexy novel about Jewish families in the Midwest

The Stuff of Fiction

Advice on Craft

Enlarged and Revised Edition

By Douglas Bauer
Subjects: Composition, Literary Studies, American Literature, Fiction

A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft

Secret Spaces of Childhood

Edited by Elizabeth N. Goodenough
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Fiction, Literary Studies, American Literature

This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates

Where No Gods Came

By Sheila O'Connor
Subjects: Fiction
Series: Sweetwater Fiction: Originals

Where No Gods Came, the 2003 winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel, is a candid portrait of the unlikely faces of good and evil, and how an innocent must learn to recognize them to endure