A look at the literary leaders of tomorrow

Best New American Voices 2004

Edited by John Casey

Harcourt/Harvest, 306 pages, $14 paper

Since its launch in 2000, this series has discovered some of the best new writers, including Adam Johnson, Maile Meloy, John Murray and the late Amanda Davis, to whom this volume is dedicated. Collecting stories by American writers from distinguished writing programs, this book reminds us of the range of imagination and experience informing fiction today.