Presents a selection of the author's short works, including 'Too Young,' 'Bread Alone,' 'Graven Image,' and 'Mrs. Whitman.'

Caught up in the fast life of the 1930s New York City, Gloria Wandrous becomes tragically involved with a married man

Grace Caldwell Tate, the head of the leading family of Fort Penn, Pennsylvania, survives affairs, scandals, and disasters through her sheer determination (view table of contents)

A new edition of the classic collection of short stories that created an opening for J. D . Salinger and John Cheever takes readers into the heart of the Pennsylvania suburbs, a land of country clubs, shopkeepers, bartenders, and college students. Original.

Product Description: The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

Product Description: An in-depth critical introduction to a major short story writer. O'Hara established "The New Yorker" story and has helped pave the way for the next wave of American short fiction. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Present selected works from the poetry of Frank O'Hara.

"Appointment in Samarra" is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associates his life begins to spiral out of control - taking his loving but troubled marriage with it.

A bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 was inspired by a news account of the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman washed up on a Long Island beach. Was it an accident, a murder, a suicide? The circumstances of her death were never resolved, but O’Hara seized upon the tragedy to imagine the woman’s down-and-out life in New York City in the early 1930s. “O’Hara understood better than any other American writer how class can both reveal and shape character,” Fran Lebowitz writes in her Introduction. With brash honesty and a flair for the unconventional, BUtterfield 8 lays bare the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. The result is a masterpiece of American fiction.