In celebration of International Education Week (IEW), the CSI Library has a new book display in the Library rotunda with a selection of short stories from all over the world. The display entitled, “Short Stories from around the World” and was curated by Professor Wilma Jones, Instruction and Reference Librarian, and Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development. Dr. Jones selected short stories from Argentina, Bahrain, Canada, China, Israel, Haiti, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Nigeria, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen, for this display.
Selected titles include:
Akers, Deborah S., and Abū Bakr Aḥmad Bāqādir. Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulf. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
Akpan, Uwem. Say You’re One of Them. Back Bay Books, 2009.
Atwood, Margaret, and Robert Weaver, eds. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English. New York, 1995.
Borges’ Short Stories: A Reader’s Guide. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2010.
Carver, Ann C., and Sung-sheng Chang, eds. Bamboo Shoots after the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990.
Cohen-Mor, Dalya. Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories. State University of New York Press, 2005.
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama., ed. Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women. W.W. Norton, 2003.
Danticat, Edwidge. Krik? Krak! Vintage Books, 1996.
Grynberg, Mikoaj. I’d like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry to: Stories. Translated by Sean Gasper Bye, The New Press, 2021.
Gutkind, Lee. The Best Creative Nonfiction. Volume 1. W.W. Norton, 2007.
Ha, Sŏng-nan. Flowers of Mold: Stories. Translated by Janet Hong. Open Letter, 2019.
Holzer, Hans. Great American Ghost Stories. Dorset Press, 1990.
Jin, Ha. The Bridegroom: Stories. Vintage Books, 2001.
Lempel, Blume. Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories. Translated by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Mandel Vilar Press, 2016.
Nettel, Guadalupe. Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Seven Stories Press, 2020.
Ortega-Medina, Orlando. Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions. Cloud Lodge Books, 2017.
Sebold, Alice, et al. The Best American Short Stories 2009. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009.
Smith, Patricia. Staten Island Noir. Akashic Books, 2012.
Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō. Red Roofs & Other Stories. Translated by Paul McCarthy and Anthony H. (Anthony Hood) University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Wang, Ping. American Visa: Short Stories. Coffee House Press, 1994.
Wong, Timothy C. Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction. University of Hawai’i Press, 2003.
For more information about International Education Week, please visit https://iew.state.gov/
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