The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
by Edward P. Jones and John Updike and Annie Proulx and Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders and Robert Stone and Richard Yates and Joyce Carol Oates and Lorrie Moore and Flannery O'Connor and Tobias Wolff and Jhumpa Lahiri and Sherman Alexie and T.C. Boyle and Stuart Dybek and Denis Johnson and Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver and John Cheever and Richard Ford and Eudora Welty and Richard Bausch and Louise Erdrich and Junot Díaz and Thom Jones and Bharati Mukherjee and Adam Haslett and Andre Dubus and Robert Olen Butler and Donald Barthelme and Joy Williams and Grace Paley and Z.Z. Packer and Kevin Canty and Elizabeth Spencer and Steve Yarbrough and Dennis McFarland and Tom Franklin and Barry Hannah and Deborah Eisenberg and Nathan Englander and Andrea Lee and Matthew Klam and Julie Orringer and Nell Freudenberger
In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story . It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in the words of The Washington Post —with stories by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and forty others demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest narration. In the years since, Ford has been reading new stories and rereading old ones and selecting new favorites. This new collection features more than forty stories, including some he regretted overlooking the first time around, as well as many by a new generation of writers—among them Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Deborah Eisenberg, Nell Freudenberger, Matthew Klam, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Z. Z. Packer. None of the stories (though a few of the writers) were in the first volume. Once again, Ford’s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.
Release Date:
November 9, 2007
