{"product_id":"new-american-stories-isbn-9780804173544","title":"New American Stories","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNew American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable anthology, Ben Marcus has corralled a vital and artistically singular crowd of contemporary fiction writers. Collected here are practitioners of deep realism, mind-blowing experimentalism, and every hybrid in between. Luminaries and cult authors stand side by side with the most compelling new literary voices. Nothing less than the American short story renaissance distilled down to its most relevant, daring, and unforgettable works, \u003ci\u003eNew American Stories\u003c\/i\u003e puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.Said Sayrafiezadeh, \u003ci\u003eParanoia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Lee,  \u003ci\u003eSlatland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jesse Ball, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deborah Eisenberg, \u003ci\u003eSome Other, Better Otto\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Doerr, \u003ci\u003eThe Deep\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yiyun Li, \u003ci\u003eA Man Like Him\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George Saunders, \u003ci\u003eHome\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NoViolet Bulawayo, \u003ci\u003eShhh \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Maureen McHugh, \u003ci\u003eSpecial Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sam Lipsyte, \u003ci\u003eThis Appointment Occurs in the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lydia Davis, \u003ci\u003eMen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Donald Antrim, \u003ci\u003eAnother Manhattan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Zadie Smith, \u003ci\u003eMeet the President!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Denis Johnson, \u003ci\u003eThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joy Williams, \u003ci\u003eThe Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christine Schutt, \u003ci\u003eA Happy Rural Seat of Various View Lucinda's Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Don DeLillo, \u003ci\u003eHammer and Sickle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mathias Svalina, \u003ci\u003ePlay\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lucy Corin, \u003ci\u003eMadmen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mary Gaitskill, \u003ci\u003eThe Arms and Legs of the Lake\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wells Tower, \u003ci\u003eRaw Water\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rachel Glaser, \u003ci\u003ePee on Water\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tao Lin, \u003ci\u003eLove is a Thing on Sale for More Money than There Exists\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Curtis, \u003ci\u003eThe Toast\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Coover, \u003ci\u003eGoing for a Beer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Charles Yu, \u003ci\u003eStandard Loneliness Package\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Deb Olin Unferth, \u003ci\u003eWait Till You See Me Dance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kyle Coma-Thompson, \u003ci\u003eThe Lucky Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rivka Galchen, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Donald Ray Pollack,\u003ci\u003e Fish Sticks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kelly Link, \u003ci\u003eValley of the Girls\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Claire Vaye Watkins, \u003ci\u003eThe Diggings\u003c\/i\u003ePraise for Ben Marcus:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marcus is a writer of prodigious talent. --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ben Marcus is the rarest kind of writer: a necessary one. It's become impossible to imagine the literary world--the world itself--without his daring, mind-bending and heartbreaking writing.\"--Jonathan Safran FoerBen Marcus is the author of four books of fiction: \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, and Leaving the Sea, \u003c\/i\u003eand he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor Book of New American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper’s, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e New Yorker, Granta,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eParis Review, McSweeney’s, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConjunctions.\u003c\/i\u003e Among his awards are the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers’ Award. He lives in New York, where he is on faculty at Columbia University.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301107323109,"sku":"NP9780804173544","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780804173544.jpg?v=1767733650","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/new-american-stories-isbn-9780804173544","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}