From the publisher: "Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: 'How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.'"

From the publisher: "Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this Best American Short Stories. 'I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,' writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, 'but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.' The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher—all characters and circumstances that show us what we 'need to know about the lives of others.'"

From the publisher: "Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature... These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write 'as an aid to love-making.' Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen's story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver's 'minimalism,' a term he disliked, and Grace Paley's 'secular Yiddishkeit.' Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Díaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American."