The Penguin book of the modern American short story
by O'Brien, Tim, King, Stephen, Sontag, Susan, Saunders, George, Walker, Alice, Liu, Ken, Danticat, Edwidge, Davis, Lydia, Johnson, Charles, Allison, Dorothy, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Bambara, Toni Cade, Bass, Rick, Berlin, Lucia, Carver, Raymond, Chiang, Ted, Cisneros, Sandra, Díaz, Junot, Dybek, Stuart, Englander, Nathan, Erdrich, Louise, Everett, Percival, Groff, Lauren, Hemon, Aleksandar, Holleran, Andrew, Johnson, Denis, Kincaid, Jamaica, Lahiri, Jhumpa, Le Guin, Ursula K., Muñoz, Manuel, Otsuka, Julie, Paley, Grace, Russell, Karen, Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Watkins, Claire Vaye, Williams, Joy, Wolff, Tobias
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman.…