Edited by Oates, the living master of the short story ("Buffalo News"), this handsome volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American fiction has to offer. ...

A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.