The biggest and best collection of American flash fiction ever assembled reveals the very big imaginative possibilities of very short stories<\/p>\n
Featuring 100 genre-spanning and form-bending stories, spanning 160+years; includes literary fiction, speculative fiction, noir, satire, surrealism, humor, horror, parables, fables, and more.<\/p>\n
This landmark Library of America anthology presents the best of a century and a half of American storytelling\u00a0and literary innovation\u2014in 100 bite-sized pieces,\u00a0from 100\u00a0wildly diverse and distinguished authors.<\/p>\n
Celebrating the artful brevities of flash fiction from Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Zora Neale Hurston to Donald Barthelme, Lydia Davis, and Diane Williams, it\u00a0recovers\u00a0some of\u00a0the\u00a0little-understood\u00a0history of the very short story before \u201cflash fiction\u201d was\u00a0invented, and it gathers the brilliant work of\u00a0a score of\u00a0emerging contemporary writers, too. Here\u00a0are:<\/p>\n
Winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award (Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Tim O\u2019Brien)Hard-boiled crime writers (Dashiell Hammett, David Goodis)Speculative fiction writers (H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Damon Knight, Sofia Samatar)Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West, Langston Hughes)<\/p>\n
Surrealists;\u00a0prose poets; memoirists;\u00a0experimental writers;\u00a0and many more, all of them with stories that reveal worlds and startle the imagination in the space of a\u00a0few pages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Introduced by acclaimed\u00a0writer, critic, and anthologist\u00a0David L. Ulin,\u00a0who explores the origins and creative range of the form,\u00a0the\u00a0collection also includes\u00a0notes on the stories and contributors, and an index.<\/p>\n
David L. Ulin is a professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he edits the journal Air\/Light.\u00a0He is the former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, and, most recently, the novel Thirteen Question Method. For Library of America, he has edited Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology and The Joan Didion Collection.<\/p>\n
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These \u00a0Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize.\u00a0She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row Los Angeles where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest and best collection of American flash fiction ever assembled reveals the very big imaginative possibilities of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64531,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-469925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bookstore-events","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}