Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. SIGNED first edition - These books are notable for the amount of good - and interesting -writing compressed into one volume. Includes stories by Alice Munro, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Jill McCorkle, Carolyn Cooke and more. Brief biographies of the contributors. Introductions by Sue Miller and Katrina Kennison, series editor. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Danticat at "Seven" ; Chabon at "Along the Frontage Road" and Jim Shepard at "Love and Hydrogen." Includes contributors' notes and list of 100 other distinguished stories of 2001. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-618-131736.