Simon Rich, at the end of a slight collection of New Yorker-type comic sketches, thanked all of 42 people.
This local band recently released "The Long Goodbye" (Merge), a charming (if slight) collection of gentle indie-rock songs that occasionally borrow from country or folk.
It is but one testament to America's diminished standing that his most recent book, "9-11," a slight collection of interviews (largely conducted via e-mail), was published in 26 countries and translated into 23 languages, finding its way onto best-seller lists in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and New Zealand.
If it's good enough for Chekhov … To dismiss Tom Barbash's collection of slight, sad stories, Stay Up With Me, would be to dismiss that entire tradition of the short story in which the apparently insignificant, the uninteresting and the accidental are revealed as being not only the stuff of life itself but also the true matter of art.
In preparation for my conversation with Bromell, I had the treat of discovering "The Slightest Distance," his first collection of short stories.
Bromell -- whose previous books include "The Slightest Distance" (1974), a collection of stories, and "The Follower" (1984), a novel, and who has more recently worked in television as a writer and producer for shows like "Northern Exposure" and "Chicago Hope" -- has chosen to tell this story through the eyes of Hooper's son, Terry.
That the music on Monday night seemed an afterthought was no slight to the lineup, a collection of young rappers — Shala., Proton and Hollywood Holt — with eccentric style and a good sense of humor (which they needed, given how tough it was to draw attention away from the extreme sports taking place just a few feet away).
These include the spatial resolution of the AVHRR data and accuracy of classification into land cover types, the procedure for grouping into larger classes, and the slight difference between dates of collection of satellite and disease data.
While those first five hit ters in Cincinnati's line‐up perhaps give the Reds a slight edge over Baltimore's wealthy collection of run producers, the Orioles Should have an advantage in their trio of starting pitchers Jim Palmer (20 victories), Mike Cuellar (24) and Dave Mc Nally (24 if the last two of those pitchers can over come the odds Cincinnati es tablished this season.
The main square was broad, and the town hall, built of brick, gave the collection of squat, abandoned buildings a slight air of civilization.
Owing to clinical context, slight variations of collection times were allowed and deviations were reported.
