Best of times, worst of times : contemporary American short stories from the new Gilded Age / edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi.

ImprintNew York : New York University Press, 2011.

Descriptionix, 357 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: ContentYour mother and I / Dave Eggers -- Ballad of Duane Jaurez / Tom Franklin -- In the American society / Gish Jen -- Gogol / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy -- Smorgasbord / Tobias Wolfe -- How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie) / Junot Diaz -- In the cemetary where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Metamorphosis / John Updike -- Think / David Foster Wallace -- Expensive trips nowhere / Tom Bissell -- Near-extinct birds of the central Cordillera / Ben Fountain -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- COMMCOMM / George Saunders -- Mines / Susan Straight -- Skinless / Aimee Bender -- View from a headlock / Jonathan Lethem -- Brownies / Zz Packer -- Pie of the month / Jean Thompson -- Day / Charles Bukowski -- Scales / Louise Erdrich -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- Equal opportunity / Walter Mosley -- Passenger / Marisa Silver.

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