The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970

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.Includes:This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman AlexieDeath by landscape by Margaret AtwoodRaymond's run by Toni Cade BambaraSarah Cole : a type of love story by Russell BanksClick by John BarthThe school by Donald BarthelmeWild horses by Rick BassThe man who knew Belle Starr by Richard BauschGryphon by Charles BaxterCustoms of the country by Madison Smartt BellSilver water by Amy BloomTall tales from the Mekong Delta by Kate BravermanA good scent from a strange mountain by Robert Olen ButlerThe year of getting to know us by Ethan CaninErrand by Raymond CarverWoman Hollering Creek by Sandra CisnerosWhite angel by Michael CunninghamFiesta 1980 by Junot DiazPet milk by Stuart DybekThe prophet from Jupiter by Tony EarleySaint Marie by Louise ErdrichRock Springs by Richard FordThe mail lady by David GatesSame place, same things by Tim GautreauxNebraska by Ron HansenIn the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried by Amy HempelEmergency by Denis JohnsonMarie by Edward P. JonesCold snap by Thom JonesDoe season by David Michael KaplanPatriotic by Janet KauffmanGirl by Jamaica KincaidTerritory by David LeavittThe kind of light that shines on Texas by Reginald McKnightYou're ugly, too by Lorrie MooreThe management of grief by Bharati MukherjeeMeneseteung by Alice MunroGhost girls by Joyce Carol OatesThe things they carried by Tim O'BrienThe shawl by Cynthia OzickBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxStrays by Mark RichardIntensive care by Lee SmithThe way we live now by Susan SontagTwo kinds by Amy TanFirst, body by Melanie Rae ThonAble, Baker, Charlie, Dog by Stephanie VaughnNineteen fifty-five by Alice WalkerFever by John Edgar WidemanTaking care by Joy Williams