The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
50 North American Stories Since 1970
Scribner · Print & ebook · December 4, 2007
Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact way to browse fifty North American stories since 1970.
- Genres
- Short Story Anthologies, American Literary Collections
- Published
- Scribner, December 4, 2007
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Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.
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Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.
Story Sampler
A compact way to browse fifty North American stories since 1970.
Come here for
- short fiction, carefully gathered
- a handy range for reading or teaching
Expect
- anthology-form browsing
- classroom-or-reference usefulness
Where it sits
| American Literary Collections | 76% |
|---|---|
| Short Story Anthologies | 71% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- American Lit Crit
- Short Story Criticism
- Authors
- Lex Williford, Michael Martone, Charles Baxter
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- December 4, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies