Three books, one-click.
Pasha Malla's The Withdrawal Method, which just won Canada's DANUTA GLEED Literary Award for best first collection of short fiction, and may I mention how adorable and funny Pasha Malla is? He scored $10,000 for this one, drinks on Pasha!
Also one-clicked Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone for particular inspiration, and Jhumpa Lahiri's collection Unaccustomed Earth, whose stories, I hear, are so good they make you slit your wrists and gouge out your eyes.
As always, I encourage supporting independent bookstores (but Amazon is so fucking cheap, whaddareya gonna do?)
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I LOVED Lahiri's collection.
Ah yes, Amazon guilt. I know it well (though lately my purchases have been nonexistent).
Where I live, though, there are no independent book stores. So it's either Barnes & Noble or Amazon.
Kat, I'm really looking forward to Lapiri's collection!
Andy, Amazon guilt, bingo! You can't beat their prices, unfortunately. We have Vroman's in Pasadena here, a great bookstore that I love to browse, but you pay full retail. At Powell's online you can order used books, but that doesn't help writers much.
One-Click is so very seductive.
I have been on the fence about Lahiri's collection (though I loved The Namesake), but I just bought it for my Kindle. You weakened my resolve. Also, I agree about Amazon, and I live past BFE so its my lifeline.
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