The Best American Short Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Alice Sebold.Pitor, Heidi and Sebold, Alice (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2009 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2009.
Short stories included Author Story Where story previously appearedDaniel Alarcón "The Idiot President" The New Yorker Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum "Yurt" The New Yorker Steve De Jarnatt "Rubiaux Rising" Santa Monica ReviewJoseph Epstein "Beyond the Pale" Commentary Alice Fulton "A Shadow Table" Tin House Karl Taro Greenfeld "NowTrends" American Short Fiction Eleanor Henderson "The Farms" Agni Greg Hrbek "Sagittarius" Black Warrior Review Adam Johnson "Hurricanes Anonymous" Tin House Victoria Lancelotta "The Anniversary Trip" The Gettysburg Review Yiyun Li "A Man Like Him" The New Yorker Rebecca Makkai "The Briefcase" New England Review Jill McCorkle "Magic Words" Narrative Magazine Kevin Moffett "One Dog Year" Tin House Richard Powers "Modulation" Conjunctions Annie Proulx "Them Old Cowboy Songs" The New Yorker Ron Rash "Into the Gorge" The Southern Review Alex Rose "Ostracon" Ploughshares Ethan Rutherford "The Peripatetic Coffin" American Short Fiction Namwali Serpell "Muzungu" Callaloo
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