num_pages: 368
description: Edited by critically acclaimed best-selling author Alice Sebold the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary antenna for what is going on in the world (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from famous to first-timers sifted from major magazines and little reviews grand and little worlds (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ensuring yet another rewarding eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.The idiot President / Daniel Alarcn --Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum --Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt --Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein --A shadow table / Alice Fulton --NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld --The farms / Eleanor Henderson --Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek --Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson --The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta --A man like him / Yiyun Li --The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai --Magic words / Jill McCorkle --One dog year / Kevin Moffett --Modulation / Richard Powers --Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx --Into the gorge / Ron Rash --Ostracon / Alex Rose --The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford --Muzungu / Namwali Serpell --Contributors' notes --100 other distinguished stories of 2008 --Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 2009
publisher: Mariner Books