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FollowingtheimmensesuccessofTheArtoftheTale,DanielHalpernhasassembledthenextgenerationofshort-storywriters—thosebornafter1937—tocreateacompanionvolume,TheArtoftheStory.Attestingtothedepth,range,andcontinuedpopularityofshortfiction,thiscollectionincludesseventy-eightcontributorsfromthirty-fivecountries.TheArtoftheStorycombinesthebestoftheestablishedmastersaswellasthefresh,newvoicesofwriterswhoseworkhasseldombeentranslatedintoEnglish.Featuredwritersinclude:*AmaAtaAidoo*JuliaAlvarez*MartinAmis*MargaretAtwood*RussellBanks*JulianBarnes*AnnBeattie*T.C.Boyle*PeterCarey*AngelaCarter*VikramChandra*EdwidgeDanticat*DanieledelGiudice*JunotD'az*NathanEnglander*PeterEsterhazy*RichardFord*PeterHoeg*KazuoIshiguro*BobbieAnnMason*IanMcEwan*LorrieMoore*MurathanMungan*JoyceCarolOates*BenOkri*AmosOz*SalmanRushdie*GrahamSwift*TobiasWolff*CanXue"Agrandconvocationofwritersfromacrosstheglobe-middle-agedandyoung,famousandobscure"—Newsday