Selected Shorts: New American Stories (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

Sherman Alexie is a nationally known National Book Award–winning author, poet, and filmmaker. His work includes The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and the short story collection War Dances, for which he won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Seattle. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Purple Hibiscus, and the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She lives in Boston. Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project; Love and Obstacles; Nowhere Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno. He lives in Chicago. Jhumpa Lahiri is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the author of the novel The Namesake and the story collections Unaccustomed Earth and Interpreter of Maladies, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Symphony Space is a performing arts center based in New York City that fosters artistically and culturally diverse performing arts, literary, and film programs that bring artists and audiences together in an atmosphere of exploration and intimacy.