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Bret Anthony Johnston



Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the novel Remember Me Like This, which is a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent (London) and The Irish Times. He is also the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. His work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Paris Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

His awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Stephen Turner Award, the Cohen Prize, a James Michener Fellowship, and the Kay Cattarulla Prize for short fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, The Best American Sports Writing, and on NPRs All Things Considered.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, hes the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 5 Under 35 honor from the National Book Foundation. He wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films. He teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and at Harvard University, where he is the Director of Creative Writing.
 
 
New and upcoming books
July 2024

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We Burn Daylight
 
Novels
   Remember Me Like This (2014)
   We Burn Daylight (2024)
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Collections
   Corpus Christi (2004)
   Six Shorts 2017 (2017) (with others)
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Non fiction show
 
Bret Anthony Johnston recommends
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere (2022)
Sindya Bhanoo
"Seeking Fortune Elsewhere is a rare and breathtaking achievement, a collection of stories so original, so richly imagined and powerfully rendered, that it seems timeless. Each story is a multi-faceted jewel, refracting love and loss, casting a new and profound light on the shadows of the human heart. With her boundless talent, fierce intellect, and abiding curiosity about the souls of her characters, Sindya Bhanoo arrives as one of the most important writers of her generation."
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The Sweetness of Water (2021)
Nathan Harris
"The Sweetness of Water is gorgeous and deeply affecting in the tradition of James McBride and Colson Whitehead, but the book's unforgettable gift is Nathan Harris's unique voice and breathtaking vision. I cannot recall such an assured, accomplished, or extraordinarily imagined debut. Trust me, reader: Harris is a novelist of the highest order, a writer with impossibly rare talents and still rarer heart."
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The Party Upstairs (2020)
Lee Conell
"The Party Upstairs is thrilling—fiercely intelligent, meticulously crafted, and darkly, painfully funny. At every turn, on every page, Lee Conell offers rare insight and rewards her lucky readers’ attention. This is a first-rate writer, unafraid and illuminating and vitally necessary."

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Anthologies containing stories by Bret Anthony Johnston
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The Best American Short Stories 2013 (2013)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Elizabeth Strout
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The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Geraldine Brooks
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New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel

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