Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short storywriters, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition of The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors. The list of authors, reproduced below, includes two authors of Caribbean origin, Junot Díaz and Jamaica Kincaid. I have highlighted their names below, together of that of that of a dear friend, David Means, whose work I recommend.
The authors included are: Russell Banks – Donald Barthelme – Rick Bass – Richard Bausch – Charles Baxter – Amy Bloom – T. C. Boyle – Kevin Brockmeier – Robert Olen Butler – Sandra Cisneros – Peter Ho Davies – Janet Desaulniers – Junot Diaz – Anthony Doerr – Stuart Dybek – Deborah Eisenberg – Richard Ford – Mary Gaitskill – Dagoberto Gilb – Ron Hansen – A. M. Homes – Mary Hood – Denis Johnson – Edward P. Jones – Thom Jones – Jamaica Kincaid – Jhumpa Lahiri – David Leavitt – Kelly Link – Reginald McKnight – David Means – Susan Minot – Rick Moody – Bharati Mukherjee – Antonya Nelson – Joyce Carol Oates – Tim O’Brien – Daniel Orozco – Julie Orringer – ZZ Packer – E. Annie Proulx – Stacey Richter – George Saunders – Joan Silber – Leslie Marmon Silko – Susan Sontag – Amy Tan – Melanie Rae Thon – Alice Walker – Steve Yarbrough
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