The best American short stories 2009 / 
 American short stories, 2009. 
selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Alice Sebold with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Alice Sebold. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  2009. 
 - xviii, 347 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Best American series. .
<br/><br/>The idiot president / Daniel Alarcon -- Yurt / Sarah Shun-Lein Bynum -- Rubiaux rising / Steve de Jarnatt -- Beyond the pale / Joseph Epstein -- A shadow table / Alice Fulton --  NowTrends / Karl Taro Greenfeld -- The farms / Eleanor Henderson -- Sagittarius / Greg Hrbek -- Hurricanes Anonymous / Adam Johnson -- The anniversary trip / Victoria Lancelotta -- A man like him / Yiyun Li -- The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai -- Magic words / Jill McCorkle -- One dog year / Kevin Moffett -- Modulation / Richard Powers -- Them old cowboy songs / Annie Proulx -- Into the gorge / Ron Rash -- Ostracon / Alex Rose -- The peripatetic coffin / Ethan Rutherford -- Muzungu / Namwali Serpell. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780618792252 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>ISSN0067-6233 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.<br/>American fiction--21st century.<br/>Canadian fiction--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 2009 PS659.2  / .B474 2009