Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor
Description
Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, brings his "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (
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San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong, writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year's best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America's rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist client relationship. This astonishing collection brings together the realistic and dystopic, humor and terror. For Doerr, with every new artist, we simultaneously refine and expand our understanding of what the form can be.
Table of Contents:
ANTHONY DOERR. Introdution
NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH. The Era
KATHLEEN ALCOTT. Natural Light
WENDELL BERRY. The Great Interruption: The Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased To Be Told (1935-1978)
JAMEL BRINKLEY. No More Than a Bubble
DEBORAH EISENBERG. The Third Tower
JULIA ELLIOTT. Hellion
JEFFREY EUGENIDES. Bronze
ELLA MARTINSEN GORHAM. Protozoa
NICOLE KRAUSS. Seeing Ershadi
URSULA K. LE GUIN. Pity and Shame
MANUEL MUÑOZ. Anyone Can Do It
SIGRID NUNEZ. The Plan
MARIA REVA. Letter of Apology
KAREN RUSSELL. Black Corfu
SAÏD SAYRAFIEZADEH. Audition
ALEXIS SCHAITKIN. Natural Disasters
JIM SHEPARD. Our Day of Grace
MONA SIMPSON. Wrong Object
JENN ALANDY TRAHAN. They Told Us Not to Say This
WEIKE WANG. Omakase
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