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The Best American Short Stories 2016
''The Best American Short Stories 2016'', a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Junot Díaz.Pitlor, Heidi and Díaz, Junot (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 2016'' Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2015. Short Stories included References Fiction anthologies Short Stories 2016 2016 anthologies Houghton Mifflin books {{2010s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film ''Arrival'' (2016). He was an artist in residence at the University of Notre Dame in 2020–2021. Early life, family and education Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (). Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. His father, Fu-pen Chiang, is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University. Chiang graduated from Brown University with a computer science degree. Career Chiang began submitting stories to magazines in high school. After attending the Clarion Workshop in 1989 he sold his first story, "The Tower of Babylo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', ''GQ'', ''Salon'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Time'', and ''Conjunctions''. He is also the fiction editor of ''The American Reader''. His latest book, ''Notes From The Fog: Stories'', was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018. Life Marcus grew up in Austin, the son of a retired mathematician and the literary critic and Virginia Woolf scholar Jane Marcus. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from New York University and an MFA from Brown University. His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah. Marcus also has two kids, Delia and Solomon, born in 2004 and 2008. Marcus is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko is an American writer. Her debut novel, ''The Leavers'', won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. She has written for the ''New York Times.''Ko, Lisa, "Opinions: the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian," ''The New York Times,'' October 14, 2018 Early life Born in New York City, Ko grew up as the daughter of Chinese immigrants from the Philippines in a predominantly white area of suburban New Jersey. She began writing stories and keeping a journal at the age of five, though she only shared the work with others in high school. She then attended Wesleyan University, majoring in English. Career Ko participated in the founding of ''Hyphen'' magazine, serving as books editor. Ko published her debut novel, ''The Leavers'', with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2017 after winning the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Established by Barbara Kingsolver, the prize awards $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treasure State (short Story)
"Treasure State" is a short story by American author Smith Henderson Smith Henderson is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels ''Fourth of July Creek'' and (with Jon Marc Smith) ''Make Them Cry'', as well as short story, short stories published in ''The Best American Short Stories 2016, Best ..., originally published in '' Tin House'' in 2015, and then in the 2016 edition of ''The Best American Short Stories.'' Anthology editor Junot Diaz called “Treasure State” a “bruising portrait of brotherly rage”. Plot After learning that their father is getting out of prison, two brothers leave home and try to drive from Indiana to Montana, financing their trip by robbing the houses of the dead, during funerals. When they're nearly caught in the act after one funeral party arrives home early, the younger brother (Daniel) befriends the deceased's niece and tries to take her with them, a plan that the older brother immediately stops. At another town, Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Henderson
Smith Henderson is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels ''Fourth of July Creek'' and (with Jon Marc Smith) ''Make Them Cry'', as well as short story, short stories published in ''The Best American Short Stories 2016, Best American Short Stories'', ''Tin House'', ''American Short Fiction'', ''One Story'', and ''Witness''. His debut novel ''Fourth of July Creek'' was a bestseller and was named a Notable Book by the ''New York Times'' and the third best novel of the year according to ''Entertainment Weekly''. Biography Before becoming a novelist, Henderson studied classics at the University of Montana, then moved to Texas to work as a social worker and a prison guard. He also worked in advertising, helping to produce the Halftime in America, Clint Eastwood/"Halftime in America" commercial for Chrysler that aired in February 2012 during Half-time, halftime of Super Bowl XLVI. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Henderson, Smith 21st-century American novelists Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri Review
''The Missouri Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, ''The Missouri Review'' receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished and emerging authors. Each year ''The Missouri Review'' hosts the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize contest with $15,000 in prize money for entries in fiction, essays, and poetry. The winners receive prize money, publication, and an invitation to a public awards reception. ''The Missouri Review'' is available in print, digital, and audio formats. Honors and awards * Mako Yoshikawa's essay "My Father's Women" appeared in The Best American Essays 2013 (ed. Cheryl Strayed). * Rachel Riederer's essay "Patient" appeared in The Best American Essays 2011 (ed. Edwidge Danticat). * Laura Yeager's short story, "Having Ann", was short-listed for an O. Henry Award in 2000. * Molly Giles's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meron Hadero
Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American writer. She was born in Addis Ababa. Career An immigrant to Germany residing in United States, she earned her degree in history from Princeton University, MFA from University of Michigan and JD from Yale Law School. Hadero's work has appeared in '' Best American Short Stories'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', ''Zyzzyva'', ''Addis Ababa Noir'', and ''40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology''. She has received the Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellowships and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Her debut short story collection, ''A Down home meal for these difficult times'', was published in 2022 by Restless Books won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2023. Meron also served as a research analyst for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Short Fiction
''American Short Fiction'' is a nationally circulated literary magazine founded in 1991 and based in Austin, Texas. Issued triannually, ''American Short Fiction'' publishes short fiction, novel excerpts, an occasional novella, and strives to publish work by both established and emerging contemporary authors. The magazine seeks out stories "that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise—stories that take a different way home." ''American Short Fiction'' sponsors two annual short fiction contests, the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize judged in 2018 by ZZ Packer, and the American Fiction Prize. The magazine also sponsors a reading series in Austin as well as online workshops for fiction writers. History and publication Founded in 1991 by editor Laura Furman, ''American Short Fiction'' was published until 1998 by the University of Texas Press in cooperation with the Texas Center for Writers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written four novels and two short story collections, including '' Fates and Furies'' (2015), ''Florida'' (2018), and ''Matrix'' (2021). Early life and education Groff was born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction. Career Groff's first novel, '' The Monsters of Templeton'', was published by Hyperion on February 5, 2008 and debuted on the '' New York Times'' bestseller list. It was well received by Stephen King, who read it before publication and wrote an early review in '' Entertainment Weekly''. The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers in 2008, and was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by Amazon.com and the '' San Francisco Chronicle''. ''The Monsters of Templeton'' is a contemporary tale about coming home to Templeton, a representation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colorado Review
The ''Colorado Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. History and profile The magazine was established in 1956. It presents the annual Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. Winners include Emily Bloch (2004), Dylan Landis (2005), Lauren Guza (2006), Thomas Grattan (2007) and Ashley Pankratz (2008). See also *List of literary magazines A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External links * Literary magazines published in the United States Quarterly magazines published in the United States Colorado State University Magazines published in Colorado Magazines established in 1956 Mass media in Fort Collins, Colorado {{US-lit-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |