BRIEF ENCOUNTERS is a major new short fiction series from Vintage Classics. Launching with 52 books in July 2026, their publication will be accompanied by an ambitious and unmissable marketing and publicity campaign A collection of original novellas and curated story collections by a range of classic authors - from Jane Austen and Mary Shelly through to Toni Morrison and Jacqueline Harpman - these small books from around the world offer readers quick, enjoyable entry points into the canon. Covetable covers matched with rich, quality production values, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS will appeal to the impulsive and compulsive buyer alike. Giftable, collectable, or simply something commutable, the series will make a virtue of its versatility to appeal to every reader, for every moment Gertrude Stein's Tender Button's is one of the great works of the 20th century - a beautifully strange, poetic meditation on the everyday, it is a love-letter to the mundane lives that we all lead, and the power we all hold within us to elevate it to a new plain of appreciation and existence.