A century of fiction in the New Yorker : 1925-2025

A century of fiction in the New Yorker 1925-2025

Book - 2025

"Adichie, Borges, Carver, Cheever, Danticat, DeLillo, Diaz, Erdrich, Gaitskill, Lahiri, Moore, Munro, Murakami, Nabokov, O'Hara, Paley, Rushdie, Saunders, Sontag, Trevor, Updike, Welty, Wolff. There issimply no A-Z like the alphabet of fiction writers who have appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in the last hundred years. [This] book boasts inarguable classics like Salinger's 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery,' alongside stunners to be rediscovered. Some storiesdefined a moment or a now lost world (Isaac Bashevis Singer's '"TheCafeteria'); others showed us a whole new way fiction could sound an...d feel ('The Red Girl,' by Jamaica Kincaid). With this vivid selection, Treisman showcases how our fiction has changed over time, and reminds us that past literary fashions continue to ripple outward in the fiction we love today"--

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Subjects
Short stories, American.
American fiction.
Nouvelles américaines.
Roman américain.
short stories.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Genres
short stories
Short stories
Nouvelles
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2025.
Language
English
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
"Edited by The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, a celebratory selection from 100 years of short stories in the magazine which has been the most influential and important showcase for the form and has launched dozens of stellar careers in fiction Adichie, Borges, Carver, Cheever . . . Danticat, DeLillo, Diaz, Erdrich, Gaitskill . . . Lahiri, Moore, Munro, Murakami . . . Nabokov, O'Hara, Paley, Rushdie, Saunders, Sontag . . . Trevor, Updike, Welty, Wolff...There is simply no A-Z like the alphabet of fiction writers who have appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in the last hundred years. The book boasts inarguable classics like Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" alongside stunners to be rediscovered. Some stories defined a moment or a now lost world (Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria"); others showed us a whole new way fiction could sound and feel ("The Red Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid). With this vivid selection, Treisman showcases how our fiction has changed over time, and reminds us that past literary fashions continue to ripple outward in the fiction we love today. What does a Donald Barthelme mean to the craft of short fiction now? What will a Yiyun Li mean to the next generation of readers and writers? This exquisite tour of the form as practiced at its highest level will leap directly into the hearts of readers of all ages, all stripes, and is a beautiful tribute to the magazine's influence on our literary culture over the last century"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description
pages cm
ISBN
9780593801918
9780593688052
  • Introduction
  • "Life Cycle of a Literary Genius" (1926)
  • "Over the River and Through the Wood" (1934)
  • "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939)
  • "Such a Pretty Day" (1939)
  • "The Weeds" (1944)
  • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948)
  • "Children Are Bored on Sunday" (1948)
  • "Symbols and Signs" (1948)
  • "The Lottery" (1948)
  • "The Ladder" (1949)
  • "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1954)
  • "The State of Grace" (1954)
  • "I Live on Your Visits" (1955)
  • "A Father-to-Be" (1955)
  • "A Summer's Reading" (1956)
  • "The Happiest I've Been" (1959)
  • "Defender of the Faith" (1959)
  • "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
  • "The Indian Uprising" (1965)
  • "The House of the Famous Poet" (1966)
  • "The Cafeteria" (1968)
  • "City Lovers" (1975)
  • "Voices Lost in Snow" (1976)
  • "The Book of Sand" (1976)
  • "Father's Last Escape" (1978)
  • "The Burning House" (1979)
  • "The Shawl" (1980)
  • "The Bookseller" (1980)
  • "Where I'm Calling From" (1982)
  • "The First American" (1983)
  • "The Red Girl" (1983)
  • "Love" (1983)
  • "The Way We Live Now" (1986)
  • "Emergency" (1991)
  • "The Pugilist at Rest" (1991)
  • "Bullet in the Brain" (1995)
  • "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" (1995)
  • "People Like That Are the Only People Here" (1997)
  • "Brokeback Mountain" (1997)
  • "The Telephone Game" (1998)
  • "The Third and Final Continent" (1999)
  • "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" (2000)
  • "U.F.O. in Kushiro" (2001)
  • "Seven" (2001)
  • "The Courtesy" (2002)
  • "My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age" (2002)
  • "Gallatin Canyon" (2003)
  • "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" (2003)
  • "A Rich Man" (2003)
  • "Chicxulub" (2004)
  • "The Plague of Doves" (2004)
  • "Last Evenings on Earth" (2005)
  • "Dimension" (2006)
  • "Good People" (2007)
  • "Another Manhattan" (2008)
  • "In the South" (2009)
  • "Old Wounds" (2009)
  • "Midnight in Dostoevsky" (2009)
  • "The Other Place" (2011)
  • "Going for a Beer" (2011)
  • "Tenth of December" (2011)
  • "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" (2011)
  • "Black Box" (2012)
  • "An Abduction" (2012)
  • "A Voice in the Night" (2012)
  • "The Embassy of Cambodia" (2013)
  • "The Christmas Miracle" (2013)
  • "Apollo" (2015)
  • "Cold Little Bird" (2015)
  • "The Midnight Zone" (2016)
  • "Cat Person" (2017)
  • "Chaunt" (2018)
  • "All Will Be Well" (2019)
  • "Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" (2020)
  • "Visitor" (2020)
  • "Cafe Loup" (2022)
  • "Narrowing Valley" (2022)
  • "Crown Heights North" (2024)
  • Acknowledgments

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