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The Best American Short Stories 2011
About this book
Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the
New York Times bestselling author of
The Secret Chord.
The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers's "To the Measures Fall" is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical "The Sleep," Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser's imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in "Phantoms." Allegra Goodman's spare but beautiful "La Vita Nuova" finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in "Ceiling," her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become.
As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers.
The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from:
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Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
Able Muse Review
467 Saratoga Ave. #602
San Jose, CA 95129
$22, Nina Schyler
Agni Magazine
Boston University Writing Program
Boston University
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02115
$20, Sven Birkerts
Alaska Quarterly Review
University of Alaska, Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508
$18, Ronald Spatz
Alimentum
P.O. Box 776
New York, NY 10163
$18, Paulette Licitra
Alligator Juniper
http://www.prescott.edu/alligator_juniper/
$15, Melanie Bishop
American Letters and Commentary
Department of English
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Boulevard
San Antonio, TX 78249
$10, David Ray Vance, Catherine Kasper
American Short Fiction
P.O. Box 301209
Austin, TX 78703
$30, Stacey Swann
Amoskeag
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 N. River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
$7, Michael J. Brien
Anderbo
anderbo.com
Rick Rofihe
Annalemma
annalemma.net
Chris Heavener
Antioch Review
Antioch University
P.O. Box 148
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
$40, Robert S. Fogerty
Apalachee Review
P.O. Box 10469
Tallahassee, FL 32302
$15, Michael Trammell
Apple Valley Review
Queen’s Postal Outlet
Box 12
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3R9
Leah Browning
Arroyo
Department of English
California State University, East Bay
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542
Arts & Letters
Campus Box 89
Georgia College and State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061
$15, Martin Lammon
Ascent
English Department
Concordia College
readthebestwriting.com
W.Scott Olsen
At Length
atlengthmag.com
Dan Kois
The Atlantic
600 NH Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20037
$39.95, C. Michael Curtis
Avery
3657 Broadway
1E
New York, NY 10031
Adam Koehler
The Baltimore Review
P.O. Box 36418
Towson, MD 21286
Susan Muaddi Darraj
Bamboo Ridge
P.O. Box 61781
Honolulu, HI 96839
Eric Chock, Darreil H. Y. Lum
Bark
2810 8th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
$15, Claudia Kawcynska
Barrelhouse
barrelhousemagazine.com
$9, the editors
Bayou
Department of English
University of New Orleans
2000 Lakeshore Drive
New Orleans, LA 70148
$15, Joanna Leake
The Believer
849 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Heidi Julavits
Bellevue Literary Review
Department of Medicine
New York University School of
Medicine
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
$15, Danielle Ofri
Bellingham Review
MS-9053
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225
$12, Brenda Miller
Bellowing Ark
P.O. Box 55564
Shoreline, WA 98155
$20, Robert Ward
Blackbird
Department of English
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 843082
Richmond, VA 23284-3082
Gregory Donovan, Mary Flinn
Black Warrior Review
P.O. Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486--0027
$16, Christopher Hellwig
Bloodroot Literary Magazine
P.O. Box 322
Thetford, VT 05075
Do Roberts
Blue Earth Review
Centennial Student Union
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
$8, Ande Davis
Blue Mesa
Creative Writing Program University of New Mexico MSC03-2170
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Samantha Tetangco
Bomb
New Art Publications
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$25, Betsy Sussler
Boston Review
35 Medford Street, Suite 302
Somerville, MA 02143
$25, Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman
Boulevard
PMB 325
6614 Clayton Road
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
$20, Richard Burgin
Brain, Child: The Magazine for
Thinking Mothers
P.O. Box 714
Lexington, VA 24450-0714
$22, Jennifer Niesslein, Stephanie
Wilkinson
Briar Cliff Review 330...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Introduction
- CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE: Ceiling
- MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN: Housewifely Arts
- Tom Bissell: A Bridge Under Water
- JENNIFER EGAN: Out of Body
- NATHAN ENGLANDER: Free Fruit for Young Widows
- ALLEGRA GOODMAN: La Vita Nuova
- EHUD HAVAZELET: Gurov in Manhattan
- CAITLIN HORROCKS: The Sleep
- BRET ANTHONY JOHNSTON: Soldier of Fortune
- CLAIRE KEEGAN: Foster
- SAM LIPSYTE: The Dungeon Master
- Rebecca Makkai: Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart
- ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN: Property
- STEVEN MILLHAUSER: Phantoms
- RICARDO NUILA: Dog Bites
- Joyce Carol Oates: ID
- RICHARD POWERS: To the Measures Fall
- JESS ROW: The Call of Blood
- GEORGE SAUNDERS: Escape from Spiderhead
- MARK SLOUKA: The Hare’s Mask
- Contributors’ Notes
- Other Distinguished Stories of 2010
- Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories