Forkner, Ben

Modern Irish short stories ( Book )
26 editions published between 1980 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 873 libraries worldwide
26 short stories from such Irish authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Martin Roth, W.B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor, and Patrick Doyle. The stories exemplify the Irish love of humour. Contains some coarse language.

A Modern southern reader : major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South ( Book )
5 editions published between 1986 and 1996 in English and held by 799 libraries worldwide

Stories of the modern South ( Book )
21 editions published between 1977 and 2007 in English and French and held by 686 libraries worldwide
Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the literature of the modern South is a ... once-rural society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. The stories in this collection are as diverse as the region itself, yet they are all connected by a shared history and a uniquely Southern strain of American language and narrative. Contributors include: James Agee, John Barth, Doris Betts; Truman Capote, Fred Chappell, John William Corrington, Andre Dubus, William Faulkner, Ernest Gaines, George Garrett, Ellen Gilchrist, Caroline Gordon ... [et al.]. -Back cover.

One man's chorus : the uncollected writings by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
4 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 663 libraries worldwide
"A genuine master of the mot and the anecdote, Burgess rarely fails to amuse in this generous selection of essays on topics as various as oranges (not only of the clockwork variety), Marilyn Monroe, God, and Yiddish humor (his favorite one-liner, the Jewish matron's response to her son's psychiatrist: "Oedipus Schmoedipus - what's it matter so long as he loves his mother?")."--BOOK JACKET. "In other of these candid and sometimes cantankerous pieces written over the past two decades Burgess revisits his youth in Manchester, reconsiders his experiences among British colonials in Malaysia, and reevaluates his literary exile in Monaco. He examines his craft, he carps at critics, he reflects upon literature and litterateurs, from such twentieth-century giants as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the eccentric Sitwells to fellow novelists Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene."--BOOK JACKET.

Stories of the Old South ( Book )
5 editions published between 1989 and 1995 in English and held by 466 libraries worldwide

A New reader of the Old South : major stories, tales, slave narratives, diaries, travelogues, poetry and songs, 1820-1920 ( Book )
3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 295 libraries worldwide

The killing room ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 182 libraries worldwide
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study. Quickly, they discover that they have unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that should have been terminated nearly two decades ago. As the study gets underway, the group is presented with a series of questions, and given a finite window of time in which each individual member must submit a unique numerical answer. At first, the participants all assume that the subject who gives the most obviously incorrect answer will be removed from the experiment, but it does not take long for the group to realize that the correct answer isn't always the answer that the researchers are looking for. Meanwhile, the brooding Dr. Phillips attempts to manipulate the study to get the answers he wants. Ms. Reilly, a military psychologist and the newest member of his team, begins questioning the ethics of such a diabolical experiment.

Selected journals and other writings by John James Audubon ( Book )
3 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 150 libraries worldwide

Stories of the modern South by Ben Forkner ( Book )
2 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 142 libraries worldwide

Georgia stories : major Georgia short fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Book )
2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide