Coontz, Stephanie, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, Basic Books, 2000.

A realistic look at American life at the end of the 1940s, a time of drastic social change. Coontz puts the myths up to a realistic light and shows the way it really was.

Fictionwise, http://www.fictionwise.com

Read a short biography and an annotated list of some of Ellison's works here.

García Márquez, Gabriel, Collected Stories, translated by Gregory Rabassa and J. S. Bernstein, Perennial Classics, HarperPerennial, 1999.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the best known writers of magic realism. His Collected Stories offers a good introduction to some of his more famous short stories, including "Eyes of a Blue Dog," "Big Mama's Funeral," and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother."

Glass, Ira, and Jessica Abel, Radio: An Illustrated...