Seth Fried is the author of the short-story collection The Great Frustration (Soft Skull Press/Counterpoint), and his fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, McSweeneys Quarterly Concern, the Missouri Review, One Story, and Tin House, among many others. His work has been anthologized in the Better of McSweeneys and the Pushcart Prizes XXV: The Best of the Small Presses, and twice named a Distinguished Story by the editors of the Best American Short Stories series. He is a regular contributor to Shouts & Murmurs in the New Yorker magazine and to NPR's Selected Shorts. He has worked as an assistant editor at the Mid-American Review. He holds a BA from Bowling Green State.
Genres: Thriller
Series contributed to
Books containing stories by Seth Fried
Apocalypse Now (2012)
Poems and Prose from the End of Days
edited by
Alexander Lumans and Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 (2010)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror)
edited by
Paula Guran
Seth Fried recommends
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (2023)
Rita Chang-Eppig
"Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is a stunning novel filled with adventure, intrigue, and stirring contemplations of what it means to endure in a world of scarcity and violence. Chang-Eppig combines the scope and lyricism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the propulsive storytelling of Susanna Clarke. This is an epic novel with the intimacy of a portrait, a literary adventure not to be missed."
World Running Down (2023)
(World Running Down)
Al Hess
"Full of adventure, charm, and deeply human insights, the world in Hess's World Running Down is an apocalypse you won't want to leave."