7.6 /10 1 Votes
Language English Editor Heidi Pitlor | 3.8/5 Goodreads Originally published 1 January 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series The Best American Short Stories Media type Print (hardcover and paperback) Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 2007 Followed by The Best American Short Stories 2009 Similar The Best American Short Stories books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.
Other notable stories
In his introduction to the volume, Rushdie named several other writers whom he said that he was "sad to have left out" including Andre Aciman, David Foster Wallace, Rick DeMarinis, Beverly Jensen, Erin Soros, Shena McAuliffe, Brendan Mathews and Andrew Sean Greer. Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" were Daniel Alarcon, Jacob Appel, John Barth, Stuart Dybek, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Kemper, Stephen King, Molly McNett, Antonya Nelson, Jim Shepard, Melanie Rae Thon and John Updike.
References
The Best American Short Stories 2008 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA