In The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates gathers together the very best work by contemporary American short-story writers into a definitive, beautiful, must-have anthology.

Includes stories by:

• Ann Beattie
• Michael Chabon
• Edwidge Danticat
• Lydia Davis
• Deborah Eisenberg
• Edward P. Jones
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Lorrie Moore
• Tim O'Brien
• George Saunders
• John Updike
• David Foster Wallace
• Edmund White
• Tobias Wolff