Jesmyn Ward edited the 2021 edition of a yearly anthology of the Best American works in this literary form. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this form of literary fiction whose length lends itself to being published by magazines such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Works longer than those in this form are generally considered novellas.
ANSWER: short story [or short stories]
[10h] This author’s short story “Girl” was published in the New Yorker and takes the form of an extended to-do list from mother to daughter.
ANSWER: Jamaica Kincaid
[10m] This collection’s first story about Shukumar and Shoba in a power outage first appeared in The New Yorker. This collection includes the stories “Sexy” and “The Third and Final Continent.”
ANSWER: The Interpreter of Maladies (By Jhumpa Lahiri.)
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Short Fiction> ~20902~ <Editor: Chandler West>