Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of this generation, del
ivers a stellar anthology of the best short fiction being written today in Ameri
ca In New American Stories, Ben Marcus has collected a diverse, exciting, and wh
olly unique book of contemporary American fiction writers. Herein are the lumina
ries of the form like Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Denis Johnson, as
well as the best new voices of today, like Wells Tower, Claire Vaye Watkins and
Rivka Galchen. Practitioners of deep realism like Anthony Doerr and Yilun Li bru
sh shoulders with genre-bending wonders like Charles Yu and Kelly Link. Finally
there are the true emerging stars, like Tao Lin and Rachel Glasser standing next
to long established writer like Joy Williams.