Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998

From Simon & Schuster, Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 showcases the most exciting and innovative invoice in North American fiction from 1998.

Gathered from 100 different workshops, these remarkably diverse stories possess the quality of works by more established authors, while offering the pleasure of discovering the unpredictable and irresistible voices of an up-and-coming generation .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684838362
• ISBN13: 9780684838366
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great collection--this book contains some real talent!

Buy this book if only for Adam Marshall Johnson's "Your Own Backyard"--an astounding and astute look at the father/troubled son relationship. Also includes humorous offerings on your standard themes of sex and love. This is by far the best of the "Fiction Workshop" series. You'll keep this one under your bed and reread it when you're between books.

Promising new writers

I found this to be an extremely enjoyable read. Here you plunge into the writings of young writers whose name rings no bell whatsoever, only to be refreshed and inspired by their "diamond-in-the-rough" talent. I can not think of a more fulfilling way to stay on top of the burgeoning crop of new fiction writers, and I am thankful for this opportunity.