The Granta Book of the American Short Story

The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud; In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All” by Grace Paley; Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin; Are These Actual Miles?” by Raymond Carver; and You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore. Ford’s choice of stories is exemplary ... there’s wonderful reading here.” The Washington Post