Flash Fiction America - 73 Very Short Stories

It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.

About the author

James Thomas, coeditor of all the Flash Fiction anthologies, lives in Xenia, Ohio.Sherrie Flick, novelist, short story writer, and senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.John Dufresne is the author of 25 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Louisiana Power and Light and Love Warps the Mind a Little. He lives in Florida, where he teaches writing at Florida International University.

Summary

A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Dufresne (Editor), John (Florida International University) Dufresne (Editor), Dufresne John (Editor), Sherrie Flick (Editor), Flick Sherrie (Editor), James Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2023
• EAN: 9780393358056
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35805-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 248 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary