Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. SIGNED first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. SIGNED by Daniel Alarcon at his story "The Idiot President." Also includes stories by Adam Johnson, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Yiyun Li, Jill McCorkle, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Introductions by Alice Sebold and Heidi Pitlor, series editor. Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories. xviii, 347 pp. ISBN: 978-0618792252.