New American stories /

"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 writ...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marcus, Ben, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2015.
Series:Vintage contemporaries original
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ben Marcus
  • Paranoia / Saïd 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 Antrium
  • 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.