The Best American Short Stories 2011: Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines

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Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 - Fiction - 363 pages
The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind.
The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan,
Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman,
Ehud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser,
George Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others
GERALDINE BROOKS, editor, is the author of the novels Caleb s Crossing, People of the Book, March (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Year of Wonders, and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.
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THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS
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THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES
THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING
THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING
THE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING
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Contents

Ceiling
1
Housewifely Arts
14
A Bridge Under Water
32
Out of Body
56
Free Fruit for Young Widows
74
La Vita Nuova
87
Gurov in Manhattan
96
The Sleep
104
Phantoms
210
Dog Bites
231
ID
244
To the Measures Fall
262
The Call of Blood
276
Escape from Spiderhead
300
The Hares Mask
323
Contributors Notes
331

Soldier of Fortune
119
Foster
136
The Dungeon Master
163
Peter Torrelli Falling Apart
179
Property
193
Other Distinguished Stories of 2010
345
Editorial Addresses of Americanand Canadian MagazinesPublishing Short Stories
349
Back Cover
365
Spine
366
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Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.

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