Eight stories set in Louisiana. In Fever, a husband has an affair with a teenage girl while his wife is away, in Gaugin, a visitor from the North decides to remain in the South for good, and in There is a River in New Orleans, a divorced couple's affection is rekindled while discussing their daughter's schooling.

This selection of Capote's works is divided into six parts: short stories, novellas, travel sketches, reportage, portraits, and essays.

"In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s. Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been freshly emphasized by the AIDS...

A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway's short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest American writers. In the PBS documentary film Hemingway, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, excerpts from his stories are used to highlight style elements and biographical events as his writing matured....