A new collection, The Modern American Short Story, brings together stories from a transformative fifty-year period from the 1970s to the present day. Its editor, John Freeman, ...

Open Book. Hollie McNish, Modern American Short Stories, Twins. Hollie McNish talks about her new book Slug and other things I've been told to hate.

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THE twenty-four stories chosen by Mr. Howells for this anthology as ‘Great Modern American,’ date approximately from the Civil War. Half a dozen of the best of them, including Harriet Prescott ...

Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, story for story, readers can’t beat “The Best American Short Stories” series. Every year it brings us a wide variety of the finest stories by the best ...