Edward J. O’Brien’s annual choice of the year’s finest American magazine fiction opens with Sherwood Anderson’s Brothers and runs through work by Konrad Bercovici, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Fannie Hurst, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Mary Heaton Vorse. A yearbook of stories, magazines and authors follows, mapping the field as modernism arrived.
A ready-made reading list of 1921, mixing names still read with writers ripe for rediscovery. Download the free EPUB.