Best New American Voices 2007

by Kulka, John

• ISBN13: 9780156031554
• ISBN10: 0156031558
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-02
• Publisher: Harvest Books

Summary

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 Loafas 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction by Sue Miller	xi
BY ANY OTHER NAME by Alice J. Marshall	1	(20)
ABOUT KAMYSHINSKIY by Ellen Litman	21	(21)
SHADOW ON A WEARY LAND by Lydia Peelle	42	(26)
PERSIMMONS by Yiyun Li	68	(13)
THE FREDDIES by M.O. Walsh	81	(16)
A CORRECT LIFE by Viet Thanh Nguyen	97	(21)
THE TEMPERATE FAMILY by Caimeen Garrett	118	(25)
SYRA by Fatima Rashid	143	(22)
WAKE by Kevin A. Gonzalez	165	(28)
ASHES by Anne de Marcken	193	(20)
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SÉBASTIEN GROSJEAN? by Robert Liddell	213	(21)
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR OF OUR ALLEGED LOVED ONES by Ryan Effgen	234	(15)
POMPEII RECREATED by Keya Mitra	249	(20)
KARAOKE NIGHT by Dan Pope	269	(18)
WINTER NEVER QUITS by T. Geronimo Johnson	287	(18)
Contributors	305	(4)
Participants	309