The Editor's Choice: New American Stories

For lovers of good fiction, here are wonderful short works as varied in style and topic as the eighteen periodicals that first printed them and the individual editors who rated them their magazines" top stories of the year. Today's most celebrated writers--Margaret Atwood, Mary Gordan, Thomas McGuane, Anne Tyler--have created new fiction that radiates the same irresistible quality of their recent bestsellers. And fresh young writers like Beth Nugent and Charlie Smith set imaginations on fire with slices of urban and rural American lifestyles, values and passions. Whether from the glossy pages of Esquire or touched with the rich tradition of the Missouri Review, these superb stories bring an extraordinary tange and vitality to this consummate collection of contemporary short fiction.