Emporium is the debut short-story collection by San Francisco writer and Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 Jones Lecturer  Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson (writer)

Adam Johnson is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona...

. Emporium collected nine stories that previously appeared in American literary journals and magazines. Penguin published the paperback edition in 2003. Translated into French, Japanese, Serbian, German and Catalan, Emporium was named “Debut of the Year” by Amazon.com. Described as a “remarkable debut” by the New Yorker and “The Arrival of a talented new writer” by the New York Times, Johnson’s Emporium was nominated for a Young Lions Award by the New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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. According to Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

-Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the...

, writing for New York Magazine, “Johnson's oh-so-slightly futuristic flights of fancy, his vaguely Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...

–esque visions of a cluttered, anaerobic American culture, illustrate something very real, very current: the way we must embrace the unknown, take risks, in order to give flavor and meaning to life.”

Story Publications

• "Cliff Gods of Acapulco" in Esquire
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• "The History of Cancer" in Hayden's Ferry Review
  Hayden's Ferry Review
  Hayden's Ferry Review is a well-regarded internationally distributed American literary magazine, published semi-annually by Arizona State University. Founded in 1986, the Review is headquartered in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU...
  
  
• "The Canadanaut" in The Paris Review
• "Your Own Backyard" in The Southeast Review
• "The Death-Dealing Cassini Satellite" in New England Review
  New England Review
  The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
  
  
• "Teen Sniper" in Harper's Magazine
  Harper's Magazine
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• "Trauma Plate" in The Virginia Quarterly Review
  The Virginia Quarterly Review
  The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman...