Introduction / Claire Vaye Watkins. The diggings / Saìˆd Sayrafiezadeh -- Slatland / Rebecca Lee -- The early deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr / Jesse Ball -- Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg -- The deep / Anthony Doerr -- A man like him / Yiyun Li -- Home / George Saunders -- Shhhh / NoViolet Bulawayo -- Special economics / Maureen McHugh -- This appointment occurs in the past / Sam Lipsyte -- Men / Lydia Davis -- Another Manhattan / Donald Antrim -- Meet the president! / Zadie Smith -- The largesse of the sea maiden / Denis Johnson -- The country / Joy Williams -- A happy rural seat of various view : Lucinda's garden / Christine Schutt -- Hammer and sickle / Don DeLillo -- Play / Mathias Svalina -- Madmen / Lucy Corin -- The arms and legs of the lake / Mary Gaitskill -- Raw water / Wells Tower -- Pee on water / Rachel B. Glaser -- Love is a thing on sale for more money than there exists / Tao Lin -- The toast / Rebecca Curtis -- Going for a beer / Robert Coover -- Standard loneliness package / Charles Yu -- Wait till you see me dance / Deb Olin Unferth -- The lucky body / Kyle Coma-Thompson -- The lost order / Rivka Galchen -- Fish sticks / Donald Ray Pollock -- Valley of the girls / Kelly Link -- The diggings / Claire Vaye Watkins.
Summary:
"Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, delivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in America In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wholly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the luminaries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson, as well as the best new voices of today, like Wells Tower, Claire Vaye Watkins and Rivka Galchen. Practitioners of deep realism like Anthony Doerr and Yilun Li brush shoulders with genre-bending wonders like Charles Yu and Kelly Link. Finally there are the true emerging stars, like Tao Lin and Rachel Glasser standing next to long established writer like Joy Williams. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and interesting works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of the short story"-- Provided by publisher.
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