The Best American Short Stories 2021
Edited by Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor
Introduction by Jesmyn Ward
Read by various narrators
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798212048897
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ISBN: 9798200736232
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ISBN: 9798200736249
| Runtime: | 11.91 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
An Audie Award Finalist for Best Narration of Short Stories/Collections
A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.”The stories in this year’s collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King’s final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences, to an indigenous boy’s gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes,you“forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew.
The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes
GABRIEL BUMP • BRANDON HOBSON • DAVID MEANS• JANE PEK • TRACEY ROSE PEYTON • GEORGE SAUNDERS • BRYAN WASHINGTON • KEVIN WILSON • C PAM ZHANG and others
Performed by Lisa Flanagan, Robin Eller, Tre Hall, Katy Tang, Emily Ellet, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Alex Meraz-Mon, Adan Rocha, Piper Goodeve, Frankie Maria Corzo, Sterling Sulieman, JD Jackson, Brittany Pressley, Robert Fass, Bahni Turpin, Jonathan Davis, Priya Ayyar, Graham Halstead, Michael Crouch, and Catherine Ho
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: N. M. Bodecker
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Author Bio: Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA degree from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner—first woman and first Black American—of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is also the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is a professor of creative writing at Tulane University.
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Author Bio: Heidi Pitlor
Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage. She has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007 and the editorial director of Plympton, a literary studio. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, Ploughshares, and the anthologies It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art and Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers.
Author Bio: Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot, the bestselling novel Memorial, and the Lambda Award winner Family Meal. Hehas also won the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, a New York Public Library Young Lions Award, an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, an International Dylan Thomas Prize, and an O. Henry Prize, and he was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a columnist for the New York Times Magazine and his fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories.
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Author Bio: Jane Pek
Jane Pek was born and raised in Singapore. She holds a BA degree from Yale University, a JD from the New York University School of Law, and an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Witness, Conjunctions, Literary Hub, and twice in The Best American Short Stories.
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Author Bio: George Saunders
George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; and others. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Runtime: | 11.91 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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