Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story

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Twenty-one contemporary authors introduce twenty-one sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review.

What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty-one contemporary masters of the genre answer that question, sharing favorite stories from the pages The Paris Review. A laboratory for new fiction since its founding in 1953, The Paris Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of the last half century. This anthology'the first of its kind'is more than a treasury: it is an indispensable resource for writers, students, and anyone else who wants to understand fiction from a writers point of view.

A repository of incredible fiction, The Paris Review Book of Object Lessons includes contributions from Daniel Alarcón, Lydia Davis, Dave Eggers, Mary Gaitskill, Aleksandar Hemon, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Lipsyte, Ben Marcus, Lorrie Moore, Norman Rush, Mona Simpson, and Ali Smith, among others.

Established in 1953, THE PARIS REVIEW is Americas preeminent literary magazine.

'The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century'and now of the twenty-first.''Margaret Atwood

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