Read by a full cast ; foreword read by Heidi Pitlor.
Contents:
The era / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah -- Natural light / Kathleen Alcott -- The great interruption : the story of a famous story off Old Port Williams and how it ceased to be told (1935-1978) / Wendell Berry -- No more than a bubble / Jamel Brinkley -- The third tower / Deborah Eisenberg -- Hellion / Julia Elliott -- Bronze / Jeffery Eugenides -- Protozoa / Ella Martinsen Gorham -- Seeing Ershadi / Nicole Krauss -- Pity and shame / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Anyone can do it / Manuel Munoz -- The plan / Sigrid Nunez -- Letter of apology / Maria Reva -- Black Corfu / Karen Russell -- Audition / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- Natural disasters / Alexis Schaitkin -- Our day of grace / Jim Shepard -- Wrong object / Mona Simpson -- They told us not to say this / Jenn Alandy Trahan -- Omakase / Weike Wang.
Summary:
Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.