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A dazzling selection of short fiction spanning all of American history, from Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Ursula K. Le Guin and Danielle Evans, curated by a contemporary master of the form. For Rion Amilcar Scott, author of the prizewinning collections From America''s first generation of masters--William Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne--to today''s Kirstin Valdez Quade,;Lesley Nneka Arimah, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more, Scott shares some of the gems that have moved and inspired him over years of reading, writing, and teaching. Each story is a marvel of narrative beauty, a brilliant window into human emotion and experience in spite of (or in fact, because of) its brevity. Taking up the mantle of Milton Crane''s classic volume, Scott offers an entirely new selection of stories, ranging from America''s earliest history to the present and featuring more women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ writers, as well as a wider array of genres (fantasy, science fiction, horror). The result is a truly great selection of the best writing America has to offer.
About the author
Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection The World Doesn’t Require You, which was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and winner of the Towson Prize for Literature. His debut story collection, Insurrections, was awarded the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Best Small Fictions, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Rumpus, among others. He teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.
