Thomas Leverett

These 20 short stories were written from 2006 to 2013 by Thomas Leverett, who spent years teaching ESL - thus learning to scorn flourish and pretension in writing....

John Leverett would refer to Harvard alumni as "Harvardinates" (sons of Harvard) instead of Sons of the Prophets, to emphasize that others besides Divinity School students could and did become Harvard graduates. Cotton Mather and forces of Puritan orthodoxy wanted Harvard to remain primarily a...

These 23 short stories cover a range of topics and are set in various places around the United States. Stories that are included are Devour That Spaghetti, Like a Comet, Oscar and Roscoe, Sands of Time, Best of Indie, Death of Marcus, Emerson and the Voice, Finders Keepers, Ghost, Tule Fog...

Elizabeth Mansfield Irving was born in New York State just before the Civil War, when elocution (speaking well and effectively) was a national pastime, and she loved to recite poems and speak....

Among Actualist poets and vegetarian restaurant/bakery workers, there isn't much serious crime, but there's plenty in the college town around them. This novel puts you in 1975, when Iowa City was home to several movements at the same time, and when that guy with the pitchfork in American Gothic...

Twenty-three short stories with similar settings, namely McDonald's worldwide. The author neither glorifies nor ridicules McDonald's, but simply uses it as a common thread in the short story genre.

A series of short stories written from 2017 to 2020 by a well-known short-story author. His writing has been called "classic Americana", but it covers a wide range of topics...

These are short stories that proved very popular with English (ESL) learners. They have a personal touch and are timeless. They should be easy to listen to and should not take long....

This collection of 30 short stories by an author who has been described as writing "the best of Americana" is his seventh published collection of short stories, all under a thousand words.....

Seventeen short stories written from 2006 to 2009...

21 short stories best described as bold, intense Americana, though one is set in Thailand. Written between 2016 and 2017, the stories display the author's mastery of the craft of short story writing -- this is his sixth collection...

These are simply crime stories, direct, sometimes humorous, and well-written....

Twenty-one short stories best described as Americana, although not all stories are set in the US....