Foreword

Introduction by Tom Perrotta

Carol Anshaw. The Last Speaker of the Language
from New Ohio Review

Taylor Antrim. Pilgrim Life
from American Short Fiction

Nathan Englander. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
from The New Yorker

Mary Gaitskill. The Other Place
from The New Yorker

Roxane Gay. North Country
from Hobart

Jennifer Haigh. Paramour
from Ploughshares

Mike Meginnis. Navigators
from Hobart

Steven Millhauser. Miracle Polish
from The New Yorker

Alice Munro. Axis
from The New Yorker

Lawrence Osborne. Volcano
from Tin House

Julie Otsuka. Diem Perdidi
from Granta

Edith Pearlman. Honeydew
from Orion

Angela Pneuman. Occupational Hazard
from Ploughshares

Eric Puchner. Beautiful Monsters
from Tin House

George Saunders. Tenth of December
from The New Yorker

Taiye Selasi. The Sex Lives of African Girls
from Granta

Sharon Solwitz. Alive
from Fifth Wednesday Journal

Kate Walbert. M&M World
from The New Yorker

Jess Walter. Anything Helps
from McSweeney’s

Adam Wilson. What’s Important Is Feeling
from The Paris Review

Contributors’ Notes

Other Distinguished Stories of 2011

Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories