A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor -- and the Cookie Monster -- for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality. A ...
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A dazzling selection of short fiction spanning all of American history, from Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Ursula K. Le Guin and Danielle Evans, curated by a contemporary master of the form."There are things in life that it pays to conte...