PEN America best debut short stories. 2018

Book 2018

"PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today's most promising new fiction writers and the literary magazines that discovered them. The characters within these pages include a college dropout dressed up as Hercules at Disney World; a college graduate playing a prostitute in a ghost town in Montana; a father from Trinidad leading a double life on a temporary visa; and a housewife in Taipei perfectly perf...

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ISBN:

9781936787937
1936787938

Description:

xiii, 206 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Best debut short stories

Contents:

Introduction / Yuka Igarashi
Six months / Celeste Mohammed
Candidates / Megan Tucker
Videoteca fin del mundo / Ava Tomasula y Garcia
Brent, bandit king / Grayson Morley
Zombie horror / Drew McCutchen
Blackdog / Alex Terrell
New Years in La Calera / Cristina Fríes
Appetite / Lin King
1983 / Elinam Agbo
Stay brave, my Hercules / Ernie Wang
Bellevonia Beautee / Lauren Friedlander
The Crazies / Maud Streep
About the judges
About the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
List of Participating Publications
Permissions

LCCN:

2018938839

Control Number:

2539578

Other Authors:

Igarashi, Yuka, editor
PEN (Organization), issuing body

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