5/8/2023 0 Comments Short stories by junot diaz"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage. Heidi Pitlor, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Junot Diaz, thank you so much for speaking with us. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. And his fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Best American Short Stories. Junot Diaz, editor, is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and T his Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. LAUREN GROFF, KAREN RUSSELL, JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN The Best American Short Stories 2016 includesĬHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, MOHAMMED NASEEHU ALI, ANDREA BARRETT, SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM, TED CHIANG, LOUISE ERDRICH, From a Nigerian boy s friendship with his family s former houseboy to a sweatshop girl s experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in the academe, these stories, for Diaz, have the economy and power to break hearts bones vanities and cages. But what an underdog, writes Junot Diaz in his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2016. If the novel is our culture s favored literary form, upon which we heap all our desiccated literary laurels, if the novel is, say our Jaime Lannister, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little brother, the perennial underdog.
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