The Best American Short Stories 2008

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series ®)

年間ベストの定番"The Best American Short Stories"が出ました。今年の選者はサルマン・ラシュディ。わりと馴染みの顔が並んだセレクションとなっています。読書メモ代わりに目次を掲載しますね。WEB上で無料で読めるものについては、リンクを張ってあります(完全に自分用のメモだなコリャ……)。The New YorkerとThe AtlanticとGrantaは無料、The Harper's Magazineは年間登録料が必要、ZoetropeとThe Paris Reviewは冒頭だけなら無料で読めます。

T.C.Boyle, Admiral(Harper's Magazine)
Kevin Brockmeier, The Year of Silence(Ecotone)
Karen Brown, Galatea(Crazyhorse)
Katie Chase, Man and Wife(The Missouri Review)
Danielle Evans, Virgins(The Paris Review)
Allegra Goodman, Closely Held(Ploughshares)
A.M.Homes, May We Be Forgiven(Granta)
Nicole Krauss, From the Desk of Daniel Varsky(Harper's Magazine)
Jonathan Lethem, The King of Sentences(The New Yorker)
Rebecca Makkai, The Worst You Ever Feel(Shenandoah)
Steven Millhauser, The Wizard of West Orange(Harper's Magazine)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, Nawabdin Electrician(The New Yorker)
Alice Munro, Child's Play(Harper's Magazine)
Miroslav Penkov, Buying Lenin(The Southern Review)
Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove(Zoetrope: All Story)
George Saunders, Puppy(The New Yorker)
Christine Sneed, Quality of Life(Quality of Life)
Bradford Tice, Missionaries(The Atlantic)
Mark Wisniewski, Straightaway(The Antioch Review)
Tobias Wolfe, Bible(The Atlantic)