Synopses & Reviews
The literary journal
Zoetrope, founded in 1997 by film director Francis Ford Coppola, proved an instant and spectacular success with readers and critics nationwide. Its stories have garnered awards from such publications as
Best American Short Stories,
The O. Henry Award Prize Stories, and many more. And it won a National Magazine Award for fiction in 2001--the youngest magazine ever to do so.
A sequel to the successful first volume, this collection presents some of the best writing to have appeared in the magazine in the last two years, including stories and essays by Jennifer Egan, Pinckney Benedict, Peter Greenaway, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, and Toure, among others. In addition, two never-before-published stories commissioned exclusively for this volume appear here: one by Rick Bass and the other by Alicia Erian. The result is an exciting and vital collection, a must-have for readers of today's best writing.
About the Author
PRAISE FOR
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY"Accomplished, startling stories."--The New Yorker
"Some of the best stories from the journal have been collected here."--The Philadephia Inquirer
Table of Contents
Contents
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA - Introduction
STACEY RICHTER - The Cavemen in the Hedges
ALICIA ERIAN - You
STEVE ALMOND - The Evil B.B. Chow
PINCKNEY BENEDICT - ZOG-19: A Scientific Romance
RICK MOODY - The Creature Lurches From the Lagoon: More Notes on Adaptation
MARY YUKARI WATERS - Egg-Face
RICK BASS - Ogallala
FRANCINE PROSE - The Witch
MARGO RABB - How to Tell a Story
PETER GREENAWAY - 105 Years of Illustrated Text
DAVID BENIOFF - The Affairs of Each Beast
KAREN E. BENDER - Anything for Money
T. E. HOLT - 'O Aoyos
JENNIFER EGAN - Goodbye, My Love
TOURÉ - A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love
REBECCA LEE - Fialta
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