The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan,
Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman,
Ehud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser,
George Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Foreword (Geraldine Brooks)
Introduction (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Ceiling - From Granta (Megan Mayhew Bergman)
Housewifely Arts - From One Story (Tom Bissell)
A Bridge Under Water - From Agni (Jennifer Egan)
Out Of Body - From Tin House (Nathan Englander)
Free Fruit For Young Widows - From The New Yorker (Allegra Goodman)
La Vita Nuova - From The New Yorker (Ehud Havazelet)
Gurov In Manliattan - From Triquarterly (Caitlin Horrocks)
The Sleep - From The Atlantic Fiction For Kindle (Bret Anthony Johnston)
Soldier Of Fortune - From Glimmer Train (Claire Keegan)
Foster - From The New Yorker (Sam Lipsyte)
The Dungeon Master - From The New Yorker (Rebecca Makkai)
Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart - From Tin House (Elizabeth Mccracken)
Property - From Granta (Steven Millhauser)
Phantoms - From McSweeney's (Ricardo Nuila)
Dog Bites - From McSweeney's (Joyce Carol Oates)
Id - From The New Yorker (Richard Powers)
To The Measures Fall - From The New Yorker (Jess Row)
The Call Of Blood - From Harvard Review (George Saunders)
Escape From Spiderhead - From Die New Yorker (Mark Slouka)
The Hare's Mask (From Harper's Magazine)
Contributors' Notes
Other Distinguished Stories Of 2010
Editorial Addresses Of American And Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
