Margaret Atwood

Shannon Ravenel

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada

The Best American Short Stories, 1989

Gail Godwin

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.

The Best American Short Stories, 1985

Ted Solotaroff

Short stories by Ian McEwan, Max Schott, Paul Bowles, Peter Marsh, James Kaplan, Joy Williams, Mark Helprin, Peter Taylor, Tim McCarthy, Stanley Elkin, Harold Brodkey, Leslie Epstein, Natalie Petesch, Robert Sorrells, Jonathan Baumbach, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Cullinan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Lhluchan Sintetos, Theodore Solotaroff, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, John Gardner, Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel, and more.

The Best American Short Stories, 1978

An anthology of twenty of the best American short stories of the decade includes works by such stellar writers as Raymond Carver, Russell Banks and Alice Munro

The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties

Ann Beattie

A mixture of the works of new writers and well-known talents, this anthology of outstanding short stories features fiction by Margaret Atwood, Sue Miller, and authors whose works appeared in literary magazines or large-circulation periodicals.

The Best American Short Stories, 1987

Mark Helprin

The Best American Short Stories, 1988

Larry Brown

Stories by writers with Southern backgrounds deal with the modern problems of life in the South

New Stories from the South : the Year's Best. 1986-2007

Raymond Carver

The Best American Short Stories, 1986

It was an anthology that began simply enough: as a way to gather together the best kinds of writing going on in the South. It was also a way, back then, for editor Shannon Ravenel to keep tabs on who was writing what. Some of those voices that she heard first are now well-known: Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Olen Butler, Marly Swick, Rick Bass, Abraham Verghese, James Lee Burke, Larry Brown. Our goal is still the same-to find the most original and affecting stories. And this year, in our newest tradition, we're pleased to include a preface by Tony Earley, which calls into question the message of one of the most-anthologized Southern stories of our time. The 1999 edition gathers stories by: Michael Knight, Pinckney Benedict, Richard Schmitt, Clyde Edgerton, Andrew Alexander, Mary Clyde, Richard Bausch, Tony Earley, Michael Erard, Rick DeMarinis, Heather Sellers, Kurt Rheinheimer, Ingrid Hill, William Gay, Janice Daugharty, Mary Gordon, George Singleton, Tom Franklin Laura Payne Butler, and Wendy Brenner. An indispensable resource for aspiring writers, students, and readers of Southern fiction, New Stories from the South also includes the story behind each story. We continue to offer an updated list of magazines consulted by the editor, along with a complete list of all the stories selected each year since the series' inception, in 1986.

The Year's Best

New Stories from the South 1999

The annual collection of Southern stories has a Louisiana flavor this year, with five of the seventeen stories set along its levees and bayous, including James Lee Burke's "Water People" and "The Bug Man" by Tim Gautreaux. Original.

The Year's Best, 1995

New Stories from the South

Whether it's the bodybuilder who picks up energy in the air, the rich girl who sees potential in the beer-drinking factory worker at her father's cardboard plant, the girl who turns against her evangelist father to find the real Jesus, the aunt with a withered arm who may have influenced Flannery O'Connor, the feminist scholar trying to reason with a good old boy, or the young MFA student determined to write a good story, this year's collection is about the connections these Southerners will to happen. Each story, as Ellen Douglas's thoughtful preface says, testifies to our need to "feel and understand the significance of the buzzing blooming dying chaos of our experience." This fifteenth edition is rich with unforgettable characters and full of great moments of comedy and tragedy. Twenty writers tell their stories in this year's NSFS: A. Manette Ansay, Wendy Brenner, D. Winston Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cathy Day, R.H.W. Dillard, Tony Earley, Clyde Edgerton, William Gay, Tim Gautreaux, Allan Gurganus, John Holman, Romulus Linney, Thomas H. McNeely, Christopher Miner, Chris Offutt, Margo Rabb, Karen Sagstetter, Mary Helen Stefaniak, Melanie Sumner Each selection is accompanied by a look into the origin of the story. Readers will also find an updated list of magazines consulted by the editor for this edition and a complete list of all the stories selected each year since the series' genesis in 1986.

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