Brand-new stories (and a few poems) from Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry Malzberg, and others.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of noir works of fiction, including Rape: A Love Story,
Beasts,
The Female of the Species,
The Museum of Dr. Moses, and, most recently, Give Me Your Heart. She has edited The Oxford Book of American Short Stories,
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, and The Best American Mystery Stories. She has been a resident of Princeton, New Jersey, since 1978.