Best New American Voices 2007 - Softcover

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9780156031554: Best New American Voices 2007

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ISBN 10: 0156031558 ISBN 13: 9780156031554

Publisher: Harvest Books, 2006

Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller 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 writing programs like the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer confer- ences like Sewanee and Bread Loaf—as well as a complete list of contact information for these programs. This collection showcases tomorrow’s literary stars: Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. The best new American voices are heard here first.

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About the Author:

SUE MILLER is the author of many bestselling novels, including While I Was Gone. She has taught writing at Boston University, Tufts, MIT, Amherst, Bennington, and Radcliffe. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. JOHN KULKA is a senior editor at Yale University Press. He lives in Connecticut. NATALIE DANFORD is a book critic whose writing has appeared in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post , among others. She lives in New York.

From Booklist:

In her introduction to the latest volume in this vibrant annual short story collection, best-selling novelist Sue Miller states that the American story "has become multifarious, stranger, richer." It has been argued that academic workshops make for processed stories, but Miller, herself a seasoned writing teacher, offers irrefutable evidence to the contrary. The 15 stories she has selected are robust, nervy, and distinctive. Lydia Peelle, still in her twenties, writes convincingly from the point of view of a stroke survivor in his sixties watching the wildlife-lush Tennessee land he loves disappear under the assault of developers. Fatima Rashid writes of a Pakistani man who years ago fled to America after the death of his sister, and who now, married with children, is being deported. Keya Mitra writes of a divorced mother in Houston learning of her mother's death in Calcutta. Caimeen Garrett creates an unusual historical tale out of letters exchanged about a missing boy in 1876. Polished yet spirited, inventive and entrancing, these vital tales are bright spots on the literary front. Donna Seaman
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