The biggest and best collection of American flash fiction ever assembled reveals the very big imaginative possibilities of very short stories 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. This landmark Library of America anthology presents the best of a century and a half of American storytelling and literary innovation--in 100 bite-sized pieces, from 100 wildly diverse and distinguished authors. 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 recovers some of the little-understood history of the very short story before "flash fiction" was invented, and it gathers the brilliant work of a score of emerging contemporary writers, too. Here are: Winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award (Ernest Heming
