PEN America best debut short stories
By: edited by Yuka Igarashi ; judges, Jodi Angel, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Alexandra Kleeman
Contributors: PEN (Organization)
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781936787937
Subjects: American Short stories
Other titles: Best debut short stories
Description: "PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today's most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. The characters within these pages include a college dropout dressed up as Hercules at Disney World; a college graduate playing a prostitute in a ghost town in Montana; a father from Trinidad leading a double life on a temporary visa; and a housewife in Taipei perfectly performing her familial and marital duties while harboring secret desires. This year's selections were made by three award-winning writers, themselves innovators of the short story form: Jodi Angel, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Alexandra Kleeman. Each work is accompanied by commentary from the editors who first published it, explaining what made the piece stand out from the submissions pile, and why they were moved to share it with readers."--provided by Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Yuka Igarashi; title: Six months  -- Celeste Mohammed; title: Candidates  -- Megan Tucker; title: Videoteca fin del mundo  -- Ava Tomasula y Garcia; title: Brent, bandit king  -- Grayson Morley; title: Zombie horror  -- Drew McCutchen; title: Black dog  -- Alex Terrell; title: New Years in La Calera  -- Cristina Fríes; title: Appetite  -- Lin King; title: 1983  -- Elinam Agbo; title: Stay brave, my Hercules  -- Ernie Wang; title: Bellevonia Beautee  -- Lauren Friedlander; title: The Crazies  -- Maud Streep; title: About the judges --; title: About the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers --; title: List of Participating Publications --; title: Permissions.