The Best American Short Stories 2011: Selected from U.S. and Canadian MagazinesGeraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor 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. Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series: THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING THE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING " |
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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