Dzanc Books' Best of the Web 2008 anthology hits stores next Tuesday and can be ordered online, or pre-ordered at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or by your favorite store today! Ryan Call recently reviewed the collection at NewPages.com, ending his review with:
"The book both recognizes a wide range of quality online writing, and gives its readers a comprehensive look at the field from which its contents come – two characteristics of a good anthology. As for the fate of the series, I do not doubt that it will continue to appear each year, given the tremendous success that Dzanc has had since its founding in 2006. Such a development could not have come at a better time for online literary publishing."
We're working on others, but there are two readings confirmed, Tuesday, July 15 at Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, and Thursday, July 17 at McNally Robinson in Manhattan.
In order to whet your appetites - here is the listing of contributors and their works - plus the anthology has introductions by both Series Editor, Nathan Leslie, and this year's Guest Editor, Steve Almond, short interviews with four of the authors, and an appendix with editorial and submission information for over 300 online journals!
Elizabeth Crane - Promise - failbetter
David Willems - A Girl Made of Glass - Hotel St. George Press
Melanie Carter - Fish Catcher - storySouth
George Saunders - Some Brief and Frightening Tips from George Saunders - Konundrum Engine Literary Review
Richard Jespers - Basketball is Not a Drug - Blackbird
Tess Taylor - Route 1 North, Woolich, Maine - Memorious
Ron Tanner - My Small Murders - Wheelhouse Magazine
Christopher Rizzo - Zone - H_NGM_N
Amy Minton - Overhanded - Hobart
J.W. Young - Pageant Queen - Apple Valley Review
Juan Jose Millas - Translated by Peter Robertson - To See Them Again - Mad Hatter's Review
Anne Dyer Stuart - [envy is a nude door] - 2River Review
Jacques Rancourt - Fireflies - Rumble
Kris Broughton - The Black Fokls' Guide to Survival - Eclectica Magazine
Stevie Davis - Corner Knows the Dust - Failbetter
Amy L. Sargent - Shotgun - Wheelhouse Magazine
Justin Taylor - The Jealousy of Angels - Del Sol Review
Carmen Gimenez Smith - So You Know Who We Are - diode
Seth Harwood - Tattooed People - Storyglossia
Arlene Ang - Ceremonial Spoon - Caffeine Destiny
Paul Yoon - Postcards from My Brother - Memorious
Abby Frucht - Blue Shirt - Brevity
Kim Whitehead - The Split - Terrain
Christina Kallery - Swan Falls in Love with Swan-Shaped Boat - Failbetter
Michael Bahler - The Stiff Jew - Swink
Jared Carter - Prophet Township - Valparaiso Poetry Review
Sarah Sweeney - Tell Me if You're Lying - fringe
Cara Hoffman - Waking - Our Stories
Zachary Amendt - Casa de Serenidad - Underground Voices
David Bottoms - Thirst and the Writer's Sense of Consequence - Kennesaw Review
Claudia Zuluaga - Okeechobee - Narrative Magazine
Maurice Manning - The Doctrine of an Axe - Cortland Review
Jenny Pritchett - Bugaboo - Fiction Attic
Thomas King - Household Poisons - Contrary
Nancy Cherry - Yearly Trek to Bear Valley - Green Hills Literary Lantern
LaTanya McQueen - The Women of My Father - BluePrintReview
Garth Risk Hallberg - The One That Got Away: Why James Wood is Wrong About Underworld (and Why Anyone Should Care) - The Quarterly Conversation
Edward Byrne - Island Fever - Apple Valley Review
Robin Behn - Childbirth in Alabama - Brevity
Edward Hirsch - The Minimalist Museum - Per Contra
Sandra Huber - Eels - Danforth Review
Anna Kushner - Olor a Cuba - ep:phany
Andrew Sorge - Bruxism - Menda City Review
Andrea Cohen - Still Life with Childhood - Memorious
Elaine Chiew - Huckleberry Thumb - Juked
Bill Mohr - Headway - Pemmican
Valerie Loveland - Anatomy Test, Eleventh Grade - wicked alice
Okey Ndibe - My Biafran Eyes - Guernica
Benjamin Buchholz - The Cabalfish - Storyglossia
Stefani Nellen - The Attraction of Asphalt - SmokeLong Quarterly
Bruce Fisher - Flat at Dawn and at Twilight - The King's English
Leigh Anne Couch - I am not a man; I am dynamite - Blackbird
Charlie Geoghegean-Clements - Woodbury Notes - Furnace Review
Frannie Lindsay - Walking an Old Woman Into the Sea - Valparaiso Poetry Review
R.T. Smith - What I Omitted from the Office Personnel Services Report - Per Contra
Myfanwy Collins - The Daughters - Monkeybicycle
Michael Wood - with introduction by Jonthan Ames - The Mystery of Henry's Bicycle - Konundrum Engine Literary Review
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