New American Stories

Zusatztext Praise for Ben Marcus: "Marcus is a writer of prodigious talent. -- New York Times Book Review "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 Foer Informationen zum Autor Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, and Leaving the Sea, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, and Conjunctions. 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. Klappentext In New American Stories ! 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! New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom. Zusammenfassung In New American Stories ! 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! New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Said Sayrafiezadeh, Paranoia Rebecca Lee, Slatland Jesse Ball, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr Deborah Eisenberg, Some Other, Better Otto Anthony Doerr, The Deep Yiyun Li, A Man Like Him George Saunders, Home NoViolet Bulawayo, Shhh Maureen McHugh, Special Economics Sam Lipsyte, This Appointment Occurs in the Past Lydia Davis, Men Donald Antrim, Another Manhattan Zadie Smith, Meet the President! Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Joy Williams, The Country Christine Schutt, A Happy Rural Seat of Various View Lucinda's Garden Don DeLillo, Hammer and Sickle Mathias Svalina, Play Lucy Corin, Madmen Mary Gaitskill, The Arms and Legs of the Lake Wells Tower, Raw Water Rachel Glaser, Pee on Water Tao Lin, Love is a Thing on Sale for More Money than There Exists Rebecca Curtis, The Toast Robert Coover, Going for a Beer Charles Yu, Standard Loneliness Package Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance Kyle Coma-Thompson, The Lucky Body Rivka Galchen, The Lost Order Donald Ray Pollack, Fish Sticks Kelly Link, Valley of the Girls Claire Vaye Watkins, The Diggings ...

Praise for Ben Marcus:

"Marcus is a writer of prodigious talent. --New York Times Book Review

"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 Foer

Autorentext
Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet, and Leaving the Sea, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and Conjunctions. 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.

Klappentext
In New American Stories, 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, New American Stories puts on wide display the true art of an American idiom.

Inhalt
Said Sayrafiezadeh, Paranoia

Rebecca Lee,  Slatland

Jesse Ball, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr

Deborah Eisenberg, Some Other, Better Otto

Anthony Doerr, The Deep

Yiyun Li, A Man Like Him

George Saunders, Home

NoViolet Bulawayo, Shhh 

Maureen McHugh, Special Economics

Sam Lipsyte, This Appointment Occurs in the Past

Lydia Davis, Men

Donald Antrim, Another Manhattan

Zadie Smith, Meet the President!

Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Joy Williams, The Country

Christine Schutt, A Happy Rural Seat of Various View Lucinda's Garden

Don DeLillo, Hammer and Sickle

Mathias Svalina, Play

Lucy Corin, Madmen

Mary Gaitskill, The Arms and Legs of the Lake

Wells Tower, Raw Water

Rachel Glaser, Pee on Water

Tao Lin, Love is a Thing on Sale for More Money than There Exists
 
Rebecca Curtis, The Toast

Robert Coover, Going for a Beer

Charles Yu, Standard Loneliness Package
 
Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance

Kyle Coma-Thompson, The Lucky Body

Rivka Galchen, The Lost Order

Donald Ray Pollack, Fish Sticks

Kelly Link, Valley of the Girls

Claire Vaye Watkins, The Diggings

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