A brand new collection of American short stories, including pieces by Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Deborah Eisenberg and Nell Freudenberg. Published to critical acclaim in hardback last year, it's an essential companion volume to the first collection, which is also reissued this month. Edited by the award-winning author of "Independence Day" and "The Lay Of The Land".