New American Stories

Resumen del libro

The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the lay of the literary land.
From established masters of the form like Don DeLillo and Lydia Davis to neoteric trailblazers such as Rebecca Curtis and Rachel B. Glaser, this collection sees Marcus trying to 'prove that the distinctions we erect between styles and approaches to fiction can be essentially meaningless'. The result is a must-read, must-own volume for readers of literary fiction.

Biografía del autor

Ben Marcus (Chicago, 1967) es escritor y profesor en la Universidad de Columbia. Ha publicado dos novelas, Norteamericanas ilustres (2002) y El alfabeto de fuego (2012; Catedral, 2017), y tres colecciones de relatos, The Age of Wire and String (1997), Leaving the Sea (2014) y Notes from the Fog (2018). Entre sus ensayos se encuentra Por qué la literatura experimental amenaza con destruir la edición, a Jonathan Franzen y la vida tal y como la conocemos (2005; Jekyll x{0026}amp; Jill, 2019), en respuesta al artículo Mr. Difficult. William Gaddis and the problem of hard-to-read books , de Jonathan Franzen. En 2004 editó la antología The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories y en 2015 otra antología, New American Stories. Sus relatos han aparecido en Harperx{0026} x02019;s, The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeneyx{0026} x02019;s, Tin House o Conjunctions.