Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.
Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
50 North American Stories Since 1970
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
50 North American Stories Since 1970
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Literary CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story
- The School
- The Hermit’s Story
- The Fireman’s Wife
- The Disappeared
- Silver Water
- Caviar
- The Ceiling
- Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot
- Never Marry a Mexican
- Relief
- After Rosa Parks
- Nilda
- The Caretaker
- We Didn’t
- Twilight of the Superheroes
- Communist
- Tiny, Smiling Daddy
- Winners on the Pass Line
- Wickedness
- A Real Doll
- How Far She Went
- Car Crash While Hitchhiking
- Marie
- The Pugilist at Rest
- Girl
- A Temporary Matter
- Territory
- Stone Animals
- The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
- The Secret Goldfish
- Lust
- Boys
- The Management of Grief
- Female Trouble
- The Translation
- The Things They Carried
- Orientation
- Pilgrims
- Brownies
- The Half-Skinned Steer
- The Cavemen in the Hedges
- Sea Oak
- My Shape
- Tony’s Story
- The Way We Live Now
- Two Kinds
- Xmas, Jamaica Plain
- Nineteen Fifty-five
- The Rest of Her Life
- Permissions
- About Lex Williford and Michael Martone
- Copyright
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