This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially
provocative Salman Rushdie, boasts a "magnificent array" (Library
Journal) of voices both new and recognized.With Rushdie at the helm,
the 2008 edition "reflects the variety of substance and style and the consistent quality that readers have come to expect" (Publishers Weekly).

Contributors include T. C. Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Nicole Krauss,
Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Lethem, Karen Russell, and others.