The Best American Short Stories 2008 by Bradford Tice, Katie Chase, Kevin Brockmeier, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Allegra Goodman, Miroslav Penkov, Karen Brown, Steven Millhauser, Salman Rushdie, Nicole Krauss, Tobias Wolff, Danielle Evans, Christine Sneed, Jonathan Lethem, A. M. Homes, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Heidi Pitlor, Mark S. Wisniewski, Rebecca Makkai, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Karen Russell | Lex | Lex