We are delighted to mention that one of our editors, Alex Rose, had a short story published in the 2009 edition of Best American Short Stories, edited by Alice Sebold. The piece, “Ostracon,” originally appeared in Ploughshares in the Fall of 2008. Also, an essay he’d written for the New York Times in the summer of 2008 called “Stranger in a Strange Land” was selected to be included in an anthology of New York Times features entitled New York Stories, to be published in 2010.