“Although all these very contemporary stories probably have relevance for members of the Class of 2011 and although many First Year Seminar instructors will focus class discussions on the entire collection in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF 2006, we especially encourage your reading of the stories by: Bell, Coover, Englander, Li, McGuane, Moffett, Munro, Percy, Ryan, Swann, Tartt, Wolff.

 These outstanding prose fictions offer provocative, insightful, engaging glances at choices, differences, commonalities, and rites of passage - all topics surely of interest to members of this academic community.”

Coleen Grissom
Professor of English