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Describe your latest book/project/work. I've been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith for 13 years. My first book (Dream... Continue »
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    The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965

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Best New American Voices 2000 (Best New American Voices)

by Tobias Wolff

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ISBN13: 9780156013222
ISBN10: 0156013223
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing talent that showcases the literary stars of tomorrow. Included here are twenty of the finest stories to come out of such programs as Breadloaf, the Sewanee Conference, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the University of Iowa, and the PEN/Prison Writing Committee, as nominated by the directors of those programs. Represented are all facets of North American life, a diverse collection of visions and voices that will satisfy the most exacting of short-story readers. This dynamic collection is must-reading for all fans of innovative, cutting-edge new writing.

Synopsis:

Culled from over 100 prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, this collection offers a splendid array of writing talent that showcases the literary stars of tomorrow. Includes stories written from such programs as Breadloaf, the Sewanee Conference, the University of Iowa, and others.

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Table of Contents

In Cuba I was a German shepherd / Ana Menendez — The B-Zone open / Kate Small — Feathers on the solar wind / David Wood — Cat and mouse / Lisa Metzgar — The hatbox / Jennifer Vanderbes — The tower pig / Scott Antworth — Bike New York! / Merrill Feitell — The girls / Ladette Randolph — The view / Monica Wesolowska — My mother's first lover / Margo Rabb — Video Ame / Shimon Tanaka — Closer than you think / Marlais Olmstead Brand — When the nines roll over / David Benioff — A love transaction / Maile Chapman — Aida South, flower / Martha Otis — Ten secets of beauty / Jason Coleman — Maedele / Gabriella Goliger — The paperhanger, the doctor's wife, and the child who went into the abstract / William Gay — Tome / Maile Meloy — Cliff gods of Acapulco / Adam Johnson.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156013222
Editor:
Wolff, Tobias
Editor:
Kulka, John
Editor:
Kulka, John
Editor:
Wolff, Tobias
Author:
Kulka, John
Author:
Wolff
Author:
Danford, Natalie
Author:
Wolff, Tobias
Editor:
Danford, Natalie
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego :
Subject:
Quotations
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Subject:
Short stories, American
Subject:
American fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
2000
Series:
Best New American Voices
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
November 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
388
Dimensions:
8.00 x 5.31 in
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