Best of Times, Worst of Times : Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age / ed. by Cecelia Tichi, Wendy Martin.
Bender, Aimee, contributor.; Bissell, Tom, contributor.; Bukowski, Charles, contributor.; Díaz, Junot, contributor.; Eggers, Dave, contributor.; Erdrich, Louise, contributor.; Fountain, Ben, contributor.; Franklin, Tom, contributor.; Hempel, Amy, contributor.; Jen, Gish, contributor.; July, Miranda, contributor.; Lahiri, Jhumpa, contributor.; Lethem, Jonathan, contributor.; Martin, Wendy, contributor.; Martin, Wendy, editor.; Mason, Bobbie Ann, contributor.; Mosley, Walter, contributor.; Packer, Zz, contributor.; Percy, Benjamin, contributor.; Saunders, George, contributor.; Silver, Marisa, contributor.; Straight, Susan, contributor.; Thompson, Jean, contributor.; Tichi, Cecelia, contributor.; Tichi, Cecelia, editor.; Updike, John, contributor.; Wallace, David Foster, contributor.; Wolff, Tobias, contributor.
2011
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Title
Best of Times, Worst of Times : Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age / ed. by Cecelia Tichi, Wendy Martin.
ISBN
9780814763001
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814763001.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814763001.001.0001 doi
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PS648.S5B4655 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.0108054
Summary
Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been labeled as "The New Gilded Age," a phrase that embodies the glitz and glamour of one of the wealthiest countries in the world but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities teeming just below the surface. Identifying some of the sparkling moments of humanity interwoven between the moments of crisis, Best of Times, Worst of Times features short stories by such renowned writers as Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, and many others, whose distinctive authorial voices lend urgency and a sense of heightened awareness to the modern moment. Commenting on and making sense of what is going on in America today, fractured as it is by two ongoing wars, the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, these stories speak to some of the most germane issues confronting America today, from race relations, immigration, and social class to gender issues, Iraq, and imperialism. These expertly culled, emotionally powerful stories provide the perfect mirror with which to examine the real state of the union.
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Bender, Aimee, contributor.
Bissell, Tom, contributor.
Bukowski, Charles, contributor.
Díaz, Junot, contributor.
Eggers, Dave, contributor.
Erdrich, Louise, contributor.
Fountain, Ben, contributor.
Franklin, Tom, contributor.
Hempel, Amy, contributor.
Jen, Gish, contributor.
July, Miranda, contributor.
Lahiri, Jhumpa, contributor.
Lethem, Jonathan, contributor.
Martin, Wendy, contributor.
Martin, Wendy, editor.
Mason, Bobbie Ann, contributor.
Mosley, Walter, contributor.
Packer, Zz, contributor.
Percy, Benjamin, contributor.
Saunders, George, contributor.
Silver, Marisa, contributor.
Straight, Susan, contributor.
Thompson, Jean, contributor.
Tichi, Cecelia, contributor.
Tichi, Cecelia, editor.
Updike, John, contributor.
Wallace, David Foster, contributor.
Wolff, Tobias, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
All in the Family
1.Your Mother and I
2. The Ballad of Duane Juarez
3. In the American Society
4. Gogol
5. Refresh, Refresh
6. Smorgasbord
Shifting Identities
7. How to Date a Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)
8. In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
9. Metamorphosis
10. Think
Locations and Dislocations
11. Expensive Trips Nowhere
12. Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera
13. Shiloh
14. COMMCOMM
15. Mines
Across Divides
16. Skinless
17. View from a Headlock
18. Brownies
19. Pie of the Month
Workdays and Nightshifts
20. A Day
21. Scales
22. Something That Needs Nothing
23. Equal Opportunity
24. The Passenger
About the Editors

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