New American Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Marcus, Ben

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In New American Stories, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780804173551
• Artikelnr.: 43189898

Autorenporträt

Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, and Leaving the Sea,  and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and Conjunctions. Among his awards are the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in New York, where he is on faculty at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Said Sayrafiezadeh
 Paranoia Rebecca Lee
 Slatland Jesse Ball
The Early Deaths of Lubeck
Brennan
Harp
and Carr Deborah Eisenberg
Some Other
Better Otto Anthony Doerr
The Deep Yiyun Li
A Man Like Him George Saunders
 Home NoViolet Bulawayo
 Shhh  Maureen McHugh
 Special Economics Sam Lipsyte
 This Appointment Occurs in the Past Lydia Davis
 Men Donald Antrim
Another Manhattan Zadie Smith
Meet the President! Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Joy Williams
 The Country Christine Schutt
 A Happy Rural Seat of Various View Lucinda's Garden Don DeLillo
Hammer and Sickle Mathias Svalina
 Play Lucy Corin
 Madmen Mary Gaitskill
 The Arms and Legs of the Lake Wells Tower
 Raw Water Rachel Glaser
Pee on Water Tao Lin
Love is a Thing on Sale for More Money than There Exists   Rebecca Curtis
 The Toast Robert Coover
 Going for a Beer Charles Yu
Standard Loneliness Package   Deb Olin Unferth
Wait Till You See Me Dance Kyle Coma-Thompson
 The Lucky Body Rivka Galchen
The Lost Order Donald Ray Pollack
Fish Sticks Kelly Link
Valley of the Girls Claire Vaye Watkins
 The Diggings