Pen America Best Debut Short Stories 2017

Collects twelve debut short stories that have such various settings as South Carolina and South Korea, on a farm in the ... (more)

Collects twelve debut short stories that have such various settings as South Carolina and South Korea, on a farm in the eighteenth century and among the cubicles of a computer-engineering firm in the present day. (less)

"PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 celebrates twelve outstanding stories by today's most promising new fiction w... (more)

"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 performing her familial and marital duties while harboring secret desires. This year's selections were made by three award-winning writers, themselves innovators of the short story form: Jodi Angel, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Alexandra Kleeman. Each work is accompanied by commentary from the editors who first published it, explaining what made the piece stand out from the submissions pile, and why they were moved to share it with readers."--provided by Amazon.com. (less)