Best of the South : from the second decade of New stories from the South edited by Shannon Ravenel / selected and introduced by Anne Tyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tyler, Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--Southern States.

Short stories, American.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 342 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2005]

Summary:

Like the venerable Best American Short Stories series (the 1983 volume of which Tyler and Ravenel edited together), each volume of New Stories from the South collects the best stories published in the previous year's magazines and literary journals. New Stories has been called "maybe the best annual story anthology around" (Kirkus Reviews) and "the collection others should use as a model" (The Charlotte Observer). By inviting Anne Tyler to choose and introduce her favorite stories from New Stories from the South, 1986-1995, the series celebrates its first decade with fanfare and colors flying - not to mention the literary fireworks of twenty great short stories.

Contents:

From The Paris Review (1996) / Marcia Guthridge 1

From The Atlantic Monthly (1996) / Lee Smith 17

From The New Yorker (1997) / Judy Troy 36

From The Georgia Review (1997) / Pam Durban 46

From The Oxford American (1998) / Mark Richard 66

From The Southern Review (1998) / Scott Ely 74

From The New Yorker (1999) / Michael Knight 87

From Five Points (1999) / Heather Sellers 102

From The Missouri Review (1999) / William Gay 125

From The Atlantic Monthly (2000) / Thomas H. McNeely 147

From Image (2000) / Clyde Edgerton 172

From Ontario Review (2001) / Jim Grimsley 185

From The Southern Review (2001) / Stephen Coyne 197

From The Washington Post Magazine (2002) / Max Steele 207

From The Iowa Review (2002) / Lucia Nevai 214

From The Louisville Review (2003) / Paul Prather 232

From The Iowa Review (2004) / Chris Offutt 249

From Ploughshares (2004) / Jill McCorkle 260

From The South Carolina Review (2005) / Gregory Sanders 278

From StoryQuarterly (2005) / Stephanie Soileau 292

New Stories from the South, 1986-2005 327.

Notes:

"A Shannon Ravenel book."

ISBN:

1565124707

OCLC:

61723517