"The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O'Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen compelling answers to these questions. The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short St ..."
"The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction selected by Danielle Evans, Alice Sola Kim, and Carmen Maria Machado"Prominent issues of social justice and cultural strife are woven thematically throughout 12 stories. Stories of prison reform, the immigrant experience, and the aftermath of sexual assault make the book a vivid time capsule that will guide readers back into the ethos of 2019 for generations to come . . . ..."
"THE ESSENTIAL YEARLY GUIDE TO THE NEWEST VOICES IN SHORT FICTION "These dozen stories tend to the dark side, with rare moments of humor in a moody fictive landscape; they're thus just right for their time . . . A promise of good things to come from this year's roster of prizewinners." --Kirkus Reviews "A book of gems, each carrying its own clarity and cut, that teaches students of writing how limitless the short story form can be." -- ..."
""A welcome addition to the run of established short story annuals, promising good work to come." --Kirkus Reviews Co-published with PEN America, this new annual anthology celebrates the best debut short stories published this year by literary magazines and websites across North America. Today's most acclaimed writers all got their start when an editor encountered their work for the first time and took a chance. This anthology celebrates ..."
"This anthology collects original writing and art by novelists, poets, and academics about their pets, including a killer chihuahua, a catatonic toy poodle, a contraband cat, a backyard full of endangered desert tortoises, five forgotten parakeets, and a skinny ex-racehorse named Joe. From legends like Ann Beattie and Christine Schutt to cult figures like Scott McClanahan and Tao Lin, this anthology collects writing from some of today’s ..."
" Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement and tradition, and as an embodiment of a shiny, soulless future. What is Japan to those who really know it? This issue includes translated work from the most exciting Japanese writers ..."
Granta 131 The Map Is Not the Territory (The Magazine of New Writing) by Sigrid Rausing, YukaIgarashi, Granta Books Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Granta Books ISBN-13: 978-1-905881-87-1, ISBN: 1-905881-87-8
"This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories.Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel; Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah; Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq befo ..."
Granta 127 Japan by YukaIgarashi Published 2014 by Granta ISBN-13: 978-1-905881-78-9, ISBN: 1-905881-78-9
"'Hiroyuki's got one. They gave him eye drops at the hospital, but they aren't
working...' 'Oh?He didn't have anything likethat when Iwas there. But you know,
he always used to get those.' 'Did he?' 'Yes, forsomereason, he's prone to getting
them. ... Hiroyuki couldn'tkeep formula down; he could only take the breast. It
wasan ordeal. I used tobe in an agony until the swelling went away.' 'Howdidyou
make it go away?' Without a moment ..."
"In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta's Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the British Isles. In 'Silt', Robert Macfarlane writes of the beaut ..."