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.
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2008:
"[T]he stories are a sort of antenna for what is going on in the world....Even topical stories are of enduring quality , and the same is true for several other stories that wrestle with contemporary religion and faith." --Chicago Tribune
"How good there's was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question —what is an American story?— is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."--USA Today
Alice Sebold is the bestselling author of the novels The Almost Moon andThe Lovely Bones, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California with her husband, the novelist Glen David Gold. The film adaptation ofThe Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, is scheduled for release in 2009.
Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin. Her fiction has been published inPloughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.
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