An all-fiction anthology, featuring the very best established and up-and-coming contemporary American writers.
American Fiction: States of the Art
Spring 2000
Edited by Bradford Morrow
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Rick Moody, Pan’s Fair Throng
John Edgar Wideman, Two Stories
Rikki Ducornet, The Battlefields of Shiraz
Russell Banks, The Moor
Richard Powers and Bradford Morrow, A Dialogue
Steve Erickson, Swan Lake
Christopher Sorrentino, Stalingrad
A. M. Homes, Please Remain Calm
Pamela Ryder, Overland
Ana Castillo, Uitzilintzin, Uitzilintzin: Love Medicine For Sale
Myra Montero, El hombre Pollack, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman
Jonathan Safran Foer, Finitude: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic
Joyce Carol Oates, Four Dark Tales
Lydia Davis, Happy Memories
Ann Beattie, The Big-Breasted Pilgrim
Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingworth’s List
Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Wake
Paul Auster, Accident Report
David Shields, The Ecstasy of Looking
Robert Coover, Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock
Ben Marcus, The Technology of Silence
Matthew Derby, Joy of Eating
William H. Gass, In Camera
Paul West, The Dark
Diane Williams, In the Lightly Moderate Vivid Deep
Brian Evenson, Calling the Hour
Robert Antoni, My Grandmother’s Tale of How the Iguana Got Her Wrinkles, or the True Tale of Eldorado
Maureen Howard, Inishmurray
Joanna Scott, An Interview with Bradford Morrow
Dale Peck, Fever Dreams: A Geography of the Mind
Sandra Cisneros, Mexico Next Right
Carole Maso, The Names
Jessica Hagedorn, Requiem for a Prodigal Son
Paul LaFarge, Lost Aviators
Edwige Danticat, Dies Irae
Julia Alvarez, Our Father
Mary Caponegro, Ashes Ashes We All Fall Down
William T. Vollmann, The Sleepwalker
Kathryn Davis, Versailles
Leslie Marmon Silko, Introduction to a Book Titled Blue Sevens, or Protect Yourself From Witchcraft While You Get Rich
Han Ong, The Obituary