The Best American Short Stories 2010
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The Best American Short Stories 2010, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Richard Russo
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Richard Russo
Richard Russo is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher.-Early life and education:Russo was born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville...
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Short Stories included
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| Steve Almond Steve Almond Steve Almond is an American short story writer and essayist. He is the author of eight books.-Life:He was raised in Palo Alto, California, and graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter,... |
"Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched" | Tin House Tin House Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House magazine was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically appealing and free of the stale substance... |
| Marlin Barton | "Into Silence" | The Sewanee Review |
| Charles Baxter | "The Cousins" | Tin House |
| Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.... |
"Safari" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Danielle Evans | "Someone Ought to Tell Her There's No Place to Go" | Public Space Public space A public space is a social space such as a town square that is open and accessible to all, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic level. One of the earliest examples of public spaces are commons. For example, no fees or paid tickets are required for entry, nor are the entrants... |
| Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural... |
"The Valetudinarian" | The New Yorker |
| Lauren Groff Lauren Groff Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MFA in fiction.... |
"Delicate Edible Birds" | Glimmer Train Glimmer Train Glimmer Train is an American literary journal founded in 1990 in Portland, Oregon. It is published quarterly.-Past contributors:* Brad Barkley* Charles Baxter* Ron Carlson* Greg Downs* Peter Selgin* Andre Dubus III* Aaron Gwyn* Noy Holland... |
| Wayne Harrison | "Least Resistance" | The Atlantic |
| James Lasdun James Lasdun James Lasdun is an English author, poet and academic. Lasdun was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.-Career:... |
"The Hollow" | The Paris Review |
| Rebecca Makkai | "Painted Ship, Painted Ocean" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |
| Brendan Matthews | "My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer" | Cincinnati Review |
| Jill Mccorkle Jill McCorkle Jill Collins McCorkle is an American short story writer, and novelist.She graduated from University of North Carolina, in 1980, where she studied with Max Steele, Lee Smith, and Louis D... |
"PS" | The Atlantic |
| Kevin Moffett | "Further Interpretations of Real Life Events" | McSweeney's McSweeney's McSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers.Apart from its book list, McSweeney's is responsible for four regular publications: the quarterly literary journal,... |
| Téa Obreht Téa Obreht Téa Obreht is an American novelist of Bosniak/Slovene descent, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia... |
"The Laugh" | The Atlantic |
| Lori Ostlund Lori Ostlund -Life:She graduated from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and from the University of New Mexico with an M.A.She teaches at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco.... |
"All Boy" | New England Review New England Review The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal... |
| Ron Rash Ron Rash Ron Rash , an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. Rash was born in Chester, South Carolina, in 1953, grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Gardner-Webb... |
"The Ascent" | Tin House |
| Karen Russell Karen Russell (author) Karen Russell is an American author.-Life:As an undergraduate, Karen attended Northwestern University, where she earned her B.A. in 2003... |
"The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach" | Tin House |
| Jim Shepard Jim Shepard Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams... |
"The Netherlands Lives With Water" | McSweeney's |
| Maggie Shipstead | "Cowboy Tango" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Wells Tower Wells Tower Wells Tower is an American writer of short stories and non-fiction.-Early life, education, and early career:Tower was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in North Carolina.... |
"Raw Water" | McSweeney's |