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 Alexie
Death by landscape by Margaret Atwood
Raymond’s run by Toni Cade Bambara
Sarah Cole : a type of love story by Russell Banks
Click by John Barth
The school by Donald Barthelme
Wild horses by Rick Bass
The man who knew Belle Starr by Richard Bausch
Gryphon by Charles Baxter
Customs of the country by Madison Smartt Bell
Silver water by Amy Bloom
Tall tales from the Mekong Delta by Kate Braverman
A good scent from a strange mountain by Robert Olen Butler
The year of getting to know us by Ethan Canin
Errand by Raymond Carver
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
White angel by Michael Cunningham
Fiesta 1980 by Junot Diaz
Pet milk by Stuart Dybek
The prophet from Jupiter by Tony Earley
Saint Marie by Louise Erdrich
Rock Springs by Richard Ford
The mail lady by David Gates
Same place, same things by Tim Gautreaux
Nebraska by Ron Hansen
In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried by Amy Hempel
Emergency by Denis Johnson
Marie by Edward P. Jones
Cold snap by Thom Jones
Doe season by David Michael Kaplan
Patriotic by Janet Kauffman
Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
Territory by David Leavitt
The kind of light that shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight
You’re ugly, too by Lorrie Moore
The management of grief by Bharati Mukherjee
Meneseteung by Alice Munro
Ghost girls by Joyce Carol Oates
The things they carried by Tim O’Brien
The shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Strays by Mark Richard
Intensive care by Lee Smith
The way we live now by Susan Sontag
Two kinds by Amy Tan
First, body by Melanie Rae Thon
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog by Stephanie Vaughn
Nineteen fifty-five by Alice Walker
Fever by John Edgar Wideman
Taking care by Joy Williams