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ASF’s Favorite Reads of 2021

by ASF Editors | December 30, 2021

ASF’s Favorite Reads of 2021

Love them or hate them, year-end wrap-ups and best-of lists can help us make sense of our moment in history, and what moment in history has demanded that we search for clarity, meaning, and comfort like 2021? So, instead of offering a list of ASF staffers' favorite books published this year, we asked our editors about the books they read this year that sustained, inspired, moved, or changed them, regardless of when the book was published. What follows, then, is a hodgepodge of literary gems, … [Read more...] about ASF’s Favorite Reads of 2021

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: 2021, 2022, Alexander Lumans, Amanda Faraone, Anna Kavan, Anne Carson, Anne Helen Peterson, ASF Staff, Brandon Taylor, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dantiel Moniz, Emily Chammah, Fowzia Karimi, Hala Alyan, Jen Brown, Kazuo Ishiguro, Louise Erdrich, Maggie Nelson, Maurice Chammah, Melissa Broder, Michelle Raji, Nate Brown, Patricia Ruiz-Rivera, Peter Kispert, Rachel Yoder, Rebecca Markovits, Sanjena Sathian, Shirley Hazzard, Shirley Jackson, Sol X. Wooten, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Stephanie Frazee, Susan Quesal, Thao Votang, Thomas Savage, Uriel Perez, Willie Fitzgerald, Year-end list

ISSUE 69

by ASF Editors | November 23, 2020

ISSUE 69

Karl Taro Greenfeld, “Tragic Flaw” “She had decided, early in tenth grade, that she would not be found wanting academically, and so goodbye DKNY slacks and Calvin Klein tops, Stella McCartney blouses and Balenciaga shoes, and from that point on, it was sweats and flip-flops, her body perpetually banished beneath layers of soft cotton, her outfits interchangeable, her style indistinguishable from any of six dozen other girls all striving in Pacific Point High School AP classes and desperately … [Read more...] about ISSUE 69

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, Cara Blue Adams, Issue 69, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Kirstin Allio, Lauren A. Green, Lydia Conklin, Meg Pinto, Summer 2019, Susan Steinberg, Will Johnson

Everything Old Is New Again: An Interview With Co-Web Editor Adam Soto

by Nate Brown | April 30, 2020

Everything Old Is New Again: An Interview With Co-Web Editor Adam Soto

Writer and editor Adam Soto has long been a part of American Short Fiction's editorial team. As one of our assistant editors, he regularly read submission to the journal, wrote copious feedback for authors, and helped determine which stories would ultimately appear in our print edition. So, when we made the decision to bring on another web editor this spring, Adam was a natural choice for the role. This month, he joins our longtime web editor Erin McReynolds as our website's co-editor, and … [Read more...] about Everything Old Is New Again: An Interview With Co-Web Editor Adam Soto

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Adam Soto, Andrey Platonov, Anton Checkov, Brandon Taylor, Carmen Maria Machado, Danny Vazquez, editing, Interview, Isaac Babel, James Alan McPherson, Joy Williams, Leonard Michaels, Lydia Davis, marilynne robinson, Marya Spence, Mavis Gallant, Michelle Huneven, Peter Orner, Sara Majka, Thomas Bernhard, writing

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

You can preview the issue here.

NEWS

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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