The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970.

Sherman Alexie • Margaret Atwood • Toni Cade Bambara • Russell Banks • John Barth • Donald Barthelme • Rick Bass • Richard Bausch • Charles Baxter • Madison Smartt Bell • Amy Bloom • Kate Braverman • Robert Olen Butler • Ethan Canin • Raymond Carver • Sandra Cisneros • Michael Cunningham • Junot Diaz • Stuart Dybek • Tony Earley • Louise Erdrich • Richard Ford • David Gates • Tim Gautreaux • Ron Hansen • Amy Hempel • Denis Johnson • Edward P. Jones • Thom Jones • David Michael Kaplan • Janet Kaufman • Jamaica Kincaid • David Leavitt • Reginald McKnight • Lorrie Moore • Bharati Mukherjee • Alice Munro • Joyce Carol Oates • Tim O'Brien • Cynthia Ozick • Annie Proulx • Mark Richard • Lee Smith • Susan Sontag • Amy Tan • Melanie Rae Thon • Stephanie Vaughn • Alice Walker • John Edgar Wideman • Joy Williams

More than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors were surveyed and asked to select the best literature written since 1970. The short stories included in this anthology represent the best short fiction of the past three decades.

Selected from a survey of more than 200 English professors, award-winning short-story writers, novelists, and fiction workshop directors, a remarkable collection of North American literature written since 1970.

Sherman Alexie - Margaret Atwood - Toni Cade Bambara - Russell Banks - John Barth - Donald Barthelme - Rick Bass - Richard Bausch - Charles Baxter - Madison Smartt Bell - Amy Bloom - Kate Braverman - Robert Olen Butler - Ethan Canin - Raymond Carver - Sandra Cisneros - Michael Cunningham - Junot Diaz - Stuart Dybek - Tony Earley - Louise Erdrich - Richard Ford - David Gates - Tim Gautreaux - Ron Hansen - Amy Hempel - Denis Johnson - Edward P. Jones - Thom Jones - David Michael Kaplan - Janet Kaufman - Jamaica Kincaid - David Leavitt - Reginald McKnight - Lorrie Moore - Bharati Mukherjee - Alice Munro - Joyce Carol Oates - Tim O'Brien - Cynthia Ozick - Annie Proulx - Mark Richard - Lee Smith - Susan Sontag - Amy Tan - Melanie Rae Thon - Stephanie Vaughn - Alice Walker - John Edgar Wideman - Joy Williams

Lex Williford has taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama. His collection of stories, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award.

Contents

 Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction by Rosellen Brown Russell Banks - Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story Donald Barthelme - The School Rick Bass - The Hermit's Story Richard Bausch - The Fireman's Wife Charles Baxter - The Disappeared Amy Bloom - Silver Water T. C. Boyle - Caviar Kevin Brockmeier - The Ceiling Robert Olen Butler - Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot Sandra Cisneros - Never Marry a Mexican Peter Ho Davies - Relief Janet Desaulniers - After Rosa Parks Junot Diaz - Nilda Anthony Doerr - The Caretaker Stuart Dybek - We Didn't Deborah Eisenberg - Twilight of the Superheroes Richard Ford - Communist Mary Gaitskill - Tiny, Smiling Daddy Dagoberto Gilb - Winners on the Pass Line Ron Hansen - Wickedness A. M. Homes - A Real Doll Mary Hood - How Far She Went Denis Johnson - Car Crash While Hitchhiking Edward P. Jones - Marie Thom Jones - The Pugilist at Rest Jamaica Kincaid - Girl Jhumpa Lahiri - A Temporary Matter David Leavitt - Territory Kelly Link - Stone Animals Reginald McKnight - The Kind of Light Th at Shines on Texas David Means - The Secret Goldfish Susan Minot - Lust Rick Moody  - Boys Bharati Mukherjee - The Management of Grief Antonya Nelson - Female Trouble Joyce Carol Oates - The Translation Tim O'Brien  - The Things They Carried Daniel Orozco - Orientation Julie Orringer - Pilgrims ZZ Packer - Brownies E. Annie Proulx  - The Half-Skinned Steer Stacey Richter - The Cavemen in the Hedges George Saunders - Sea Oak Joan Silber - My Shape Leslie Marmon Silko - Tony's Story Susan Sontag - The Way We Live Now Amy Tan - Two Kinds Melanie Rae Thon - Xmas, Jamaica Plain Alice Walker - Nineteen Fifty-five Steve Yarbrough - The Rest of Her Life Permissions