A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American Short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K.
This Book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike..
Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran.
Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times.
Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue.
Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light.
Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson.
This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American Short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K.
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent.
New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy.
LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American Short Story has changed dramatically.
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American Short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K
