Richard Ford,Eudora Welty,Andre Dubus,Robert  Stone,Raymond Carver,Joyce Carol Oates,Bharati Mukherjee,Stuart Dybek,Barry Hannah,Joy Williams,Robert Olen Butler,Thom Jones,John Cheever,Richard Bausch,Tobias Wolff,Deborah Eisenberg,Ann Beattie,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Denis Johnson,Dennis McFarland,Tom Franklin,Edward P. Jones,Kevin Canty,Elizabeth Spencer,Andrea Lee,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gaitskill,Steve Yarbrough,Lorrie Moore,George Saunders,Matthew Klam,Sherman Alexie,Jhumpa Lahiri,Junot DÃ­az,Grace Paley,Nathan Englander,Adam Haslett,Z.Z. Packer,Julie Orringer,Nell Freudenberger,Flannery O'Connor,Richard Yates,Donald Barthelme,John Updike,Annie Proulx
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 centuryâ€”an â€œexemplary choiceâ€ in the words of ,The Washington Post, â€”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 writersâ€”among them Sherman Alexie, Junot DÃ­az, 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, Fordâ€™s introduction is an illuminating exposition of how a good story is written by a master of the craft.
Short Stories,Fiction,Anthologies,Contemporary
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story