| Description |
370 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
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Best American series.
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| Contents |
Godmother tea / Selena Anderson from Oxford American ; The apartment/ T. C. Boyle from McSweeney's ; A faithful but melanchily account of several barbarities lately committed / Jason Brown from the Sewanee review ; Sibling rivalry / Michael Byers from Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet ; The Nanny / Emma Cline from the Paris review ; Halloween / Marian Crotty from Crazyhorse ; Something street / Carolyn Ferrell from Story ; This is pleasure / Mary Gaitskill from the New Yorker ; In the event / Meng Jin from the Threepenny review ; The children / Andrea Lee from the New Yorker ; Rubberdust / Sarah Thankam Mathews from the Kenyon Review online ; It's not you / Elizabeth McCracken from Zoetrope: All-story ; Liberte / Scott Nadelson from Chicago Quarterly Review ; Howl Palace / Leigh Newman from the Paris Review ; The nine-tailed fox explains / Jane Pek from Witness ; The hands of dirty children / Alejandro Puyana from American Short Fiction ; Octopus VII / Anna Reeser from Fourteen Hills ; Enlightenment / William Pei Shih from Virginia Quarterly Review ; Kennedy / Kevin Wilson from Subtropics ; The special world / Tiphanie Yanique from the Georgia Review. |
| Summary |
Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Rodham" and "You Think It, I'll Say It," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-368). |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Sittenfeld, Curtis, editor.
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Pitlor, Heidi, editor.
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Anderson, Selena.
Godmother tea.
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Apartment.
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Brown, Jason, 1969-
Faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed.
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Byers, Michael.
Sibling rivalry.
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Cline, Emma.
Nanny.
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Crotty, Marian, 1980-
Halloween.
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Ferrell, Carolyn.
Something street.
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Gaitskill, Mary, 1954-
This is pleasure.
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Jin, Meng, 1989-
In the event.
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Lee, Andrea, 1953-
Children.
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| ISBN |
9781328485366 |
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1328485366 |
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