Best of times, worst of times : contemporary American short stories from the new Gilded Age / edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi
- Published:
- New York : New York University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Martin, Wendy, 1940- and Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-
- Contents:
- Your mother and I / Dave Eggers -- Ballad of Duane Jaurez / Tom Franklin -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- Gogol / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Smorgasbord / Tobias Wolfe -- How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie) / Junot Diaz -- In the cemetary where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Metamorphosis / John Updike -- Think / David Foster Wallace -- Expensive trips nowhere / Tom Bissell -- Near-extinct birds of the central Cordillera / Ben Fountain -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- COMMCOMM / George Saunders -- Mines / Susan Straight -- Skinless / Aimee Bender -- View from a headlock / Jonathan Lethem -- Brownies / Zz Packer -- Pie of the month / Jean Thompson -- Day / Charles Bukowski -- Scales / Louise Erdrich -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- Passenger / Marisa Silver.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780814796276 (cl : alk. paper)
0814796273 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814796283 (pb : alk. paper)
0814796281 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814761472 (e-book)
081476147X (e-book) - Source of Acquisition:
- Dubois copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
Schuylkill copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010. - Endowment Note:
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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