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This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by american writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. The stories are about teenagers and their experiments with vices and their struggles with their families. A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. So we did a little math, and found 12 short stories that, for the average american adult, should take less than 10 minutes each to read.
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May 08, 2019 eileen myles refers to this book as a poets novel, but the prose is infused with facets straight from the writers real life. Pulse is barness 17th book and is a masterclass in the shorter form. With his unique voice and compelling stories, joe gives the viewer a voyeuristic. Project gutenburg there are almost 50,000 free books to browse here. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. According to forbes, the average reading speed for an american adult is 300 words per minute. The best american short stories of the century john.