american fiction

A collection of American short stories, deemed the best of the genre from the year 2012 and selected by editor Tom Perrotta, including work by writers such as Alice Munro, Nathan Englander, and Mary Gaitskill.

A collection of twenty short stories by American and Canadian authors deemed to be the best of 2012.

Includes: Ruth Rendell, Antonio Fraser, Amanda Cross, Sara Paretsky, Mary Higgins Clark, and Faye Kellerman.

A collection of 125 essays which provide information on the major writers and themes related to twentieth-century American short stories.

Discusses how the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war during that time period influenced the era's novelists, such as Pat Frank in his "Alas, Babylon," or Nevil Shute with "On the Beach." Explores the mindset of people during the Cold War towards nuclear attacks and the possibility of a third world war.