The best American short stories 2009 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Alice Sebold with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Alice Sebold. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009. - xviii, 347 p. ; 21 cm. - Best American series. . - Best American series. .

Introduction / Alice Sebold -- The idiot President / Daniel Alarcon -- Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt -- Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein -- A shadow table / Alice Fulton -- NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- The farms / Eleanor Henderson -- Sagittarius / Grek Hrbek -- Hurricanes anonymous / Adam Johnson -- The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta -- A man like him / Yiyun Li -- The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai -- Magic words / Jill McCorkle -- One dog year / Kevin Moffett -- Modulation / Richard Powers -- Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx -- Into the gorge / Ron Rash -- Ostracon / Alex Rose -- The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford -- Muzungu / Namwali Serpell

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Short stories, American.

813.0108 / BES 2009