Book Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 054793940X
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547939434
The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and others (Kirkus Reviews). In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes entries by Denis Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth McCracken, Aria Beth Sloss, Thomas McGuane, and others.
Author : Lorrie Moore
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 054405606X
Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series. For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write “as an aid to love-making.” Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen’s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver’s “minimalism,” a term he disliked, and Grace Paley’s “secular Yiddishkeit.” Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Díaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American.
Author : Chad B. Anderson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544582764
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0544527968
This anthology of 20 short stories features some of today’s best mystery authors—from Lee Child to Jeffrey Deaver and Joyce Carol Oates. For the 2015 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories, guest editor James Patterson presents twenty tales with all the tension, drama, and visceral emotion of Oscar-worthy cinema. These stories features characters who must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will do anything for her man, and many others. In one standout entry, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane team up to send legendary detective Harry Bosch after a child abductor. The Best American Mystery Stories, 2015 includes Tomiko M. Breland, Brendan DuBois, Janette Turner Hospital, Theresa E. Lehr, Doug Allyn, Andrew Bourelle, Joseph D’Agnese, Scott Grand, John M. Floyd, Steven Heighton, Richard Lange, Theresa E. Lehr, Lee Martin, and others. “These edgy tales strike hard and fast but Leave vivid memories behind.”—Kirkus
Author : Michael J. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009292811
Comprising new work by leading scholars, this book traces the history of American short fiction and provides original avenues for research.
Author : Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474237185
The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story. In a series of accessible chapters, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins offer close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Allegra Goodman, Tobias Wolff and Kirstin Valdez Quade that highlight the biblical passages that they reference. Exploring episodes from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and both Jewish and Christian heritages, this book is an important contribution to understanding the influence of the Bible in contemporary literature.
Author : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 054481553X
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. This special edition contains selections from the following 2015 editions: The Best American Essays edited by Ariel Levy The Best American Mystery Stories edited by James Patterson The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Rebecca Skloot The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Joe Hill The Best American Short Stories edited by T.C. Boyle The Best American Travel Writing edited by Andrew McCarthy The Best American Sports Writing edited by Wright Thompson Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The special guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected – and most popular – of its kind.
Author : Groff, Lauren
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006327597X
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.” The Best American Short Stories 2024 includes JAMEL BRINKLEY • ALEXANDRA CHANG • LAURIE COLWIN • MOLLY DEKTAR • TAISIA KITAISKAIA • DANIEL MASON • JIM SHEPARD • AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI • PAUL YOON • and others
Author : Ward, Jesmyn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 132848341X
A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.” The stories in this year’s collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King’s final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy’s gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you “forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew." The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP • BRANDON HOBSON • DAVID MEANS• JANE PEK • TRACEY ROSE PEYTON • GEORGE SAUNDERS • BRYAN WASHINGTON • KEVIN WILSON • C PAM ZHANG and others