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By Sherman Alexie (Contribution by), Andrew Doyle (Contribution by), Jeffrey Ford (Contribution by), Elizabeth Hand (Contribution by), Bradford Morrow (Contribution by), James Morrow (Contribution by), Joyce Carol Oates (Contribution by), Chuck Palahniuk (Contribution by), Richard North Patterson (Contribution by), Jonathan Santlofer (Contribution by), David Sedaris (Contribution by), Lionel Shriver (Contribution by), Alice Walker (Contribution by), Junot Díaz (Afterword)

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Heresy Press’s new anthology, Axe: Stories That Cut Deep, gathers dazzling short fiction from some of today’s most acclaimed voices, including National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners. Inspired by Kafka’s injunction that “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” these twelve stories strike at complacency with audacity and style. Joyce Carol Oates, Sherman Alexie, Chuck Palahniuk, Lionel Shriver, Andrew Doyle, Richard North Patterson, Jeffrey Ford, David Sedaris, and Alice...