Best New American Voices 2009 Author:Mary Gaitskill (Editor) Critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year's volume of Best New American Voices. — Here are stories culled from hundreds of nominations submitted by writing programs such as the Iowa Writers' Workshop an... more »d Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences such as Sewanee and Bread Loaf.
2000: Preface --
Introduction by Tobias Wolff --
In Cuba I was a German shepherd by Ana Menendez --
The B-Zone open by Kate Small --
Feathers on the solar wind by David Wood --
Cat and mouse by Lisa Metzgar --
The hatbox by Jennifer Vanderbes --
The tower pig by Scott Antworth --
Bike New York! by Merrill Feitell --
The girls by Ladette Randolph --
The view by Monica Wesolowska --
My mother's first lover by Margo Rabb --
Video Ame by Shimon Tanaka --
Closer than you think by Marlais Olmstead Brand --
When the nines roll over by David Benioff --
A love transaction by Maile Chapman --
Aida South, flower by Martha Otis --
Ten secets of beauty by Jason Coleman --
Maedele by Gabriella Goliger --
The paperhanger, the doctor's wife, and the child who went into the abstract by William Gay --
Tome by Maile Meloy --
Cliff gods of Acapulco by Adam Johnson. 2005: Preface --
Introduction by Francine Prose --
Golden horde of Mississippi by Charles Henley --
Garden City by Frances Hwang --
Essay #3 : Leda and the swan by Eric Puchner --
Full-month celebration by E.V. Slate --
Like Vaclav by Keith Gessen --
Farangs by Rattawut Lapcharoensap --
More abandon by Joshua Ferris --
Rosie by Vivek Narayanan --
Silent sky by Lachlan Smith --
Pine by Hasanthika Sirisena --
Brides by Aryn Kyle --
You are here by Michael Lowenthal --
Sangeet by Bhira Backhaus --
Creatures of a day by Matthew Purdy --
Dog children by Tamara Guirado --
Cosmonaut by Ian David Froeb --
Snow fever by Rebecca Barry. 2007: Introduction by Sue Miller --
By any other name by Alice J. Marshall --
About Kamyshinskiy by Ellen Litman --
Shadow on a weary land by Lydia Peelle --
Persimmons by Yiyun Li --
Freddies by M.O. Walsh --
Correct life by Viet Thanh Nguyen --
Temperate family by Caimeen Garrett --
Syra by Fatima Rashid --
Wake by Kevin A. González --
Ashes by Anne de Marcken --
Whatever happened to Sébastien Grosjean? by Robbert Liddell --
Inappropriate behavior of our alleged loved ones by Ryan Effgen --
Pompeii recreated by Keya Mitra --
Karaoke night by Dan Pope --
Winter never quits by T. Geronimo Johnson. 2008: Introduction by Richard Bausch --
Alice by Tucker Capps --
Inheritance by Jedediah Berry --
Uncle by Suzanne Rivecca --
Man who ate Michael Rockefeller by Christopher Stokes --
Quiet men by Leslie Jamison --
Early humans by Garth Risk Hallberg --
Horizon by Peter Mountford --
Surfacing by Lauren Groff --
Headlock by Dan Pinkerton --
Mouse by Jordan McMullin --
Alms by Razia Sultana Khan --
Men more than mortal by Elizabeth Kadetsky --
Men and boys by Oriane Gabrielle Delfosse --
Wizard of Khao-I-Dang by Sharon May --
Venn diagram by David James Poissant --
Neon desert by Adam Stumacher --
No one here says what they mean by Stefan McKinstray. 2009: Introduction by by Mary Gaitskill --
Yellowstone by by Baird Harper --
Weather enough by by Will Boast --
Wintering by by Anastasia Kolendo --
The monkey king by by Sharon May --
Little stones, little pistols, little clash by by Jacob Rubin --
Salvation Army by by Mehdi Tavana Okasi --
Love for Miss Dottie by by Larry N. Mayer --
Mules by by Erin Brown --
Look Ma, I'm breathing by by Suzanne Rivecca --
Statehood by by Kevin A. Gonza{u00B4}lez --
Welcome home by by Theodore Wheeler --
Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice by by Nam Le --
The fantomÌe of Fatma by by Otis Haschemeyer --
The still point by by Lydia Peelle. 2010: Introduction by Dani Shapiro --
Bethlehem is full by Boomer Pinches --
Lizard man by David James Poissant --
Cape Town by Claire O'Connor --
Horusville by Christian Moody --
Up high in the air by Laura van den Berg --
The changing station by Edward Porter --
The critic by Emily Freeman --
Save the I-Hotel by Lysley Tenorio --
Plato by Timothy Scott --
Half sister by Greg Changnon --
Some things I've been meaning to ask you by Ted Thompson --
Flight by David Lombardi --
Hero by Leslie Barnard --
Portrait of a backup by Andrew Brininstool --
The burning of Lawrence by Andrew Malan Milward --