The Best American Short Stories 2018

The Best American Short Stories 2018
Author: Maria Anderson (Fiction author)
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544582888

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Short Stories 2014

The Best American Short Stories 2014
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547819226

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The Best American Short Stories 2017

The Best American Short Stories 2017
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 132876673X

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction to this volume. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America’s Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father—unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. The Best American Short Stories 2017 includes entries by T.C. Boyle, Jai Chakrabarti, Emma Cline, Danielle Evans, Lauren Groff, Eric Puchner, Jim Shepard, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jenn Walter and others.

The Best American Short Stories 2019

The Best American Short Stories 2019
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Best American Series (R)
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328465829

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544949099

An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.

The Best American Short Stories 2015

The Best American Short Stories 2015
Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547939434

The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and others (Kirkus Reviews). In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, “The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition.” Boyle’s choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence to a new widower coming to terms with his sudden freedom, from a missing child to a champion speedboat racer. These stories will grab hold and surprise, which according to Boyle is “what the best fiction offers, and there was no shortage of such in this year’s selections.” The Best American Short Stories 2011 includes entries by Denis Johnson, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth McCracken, Aria Beth Sloss, Thomas McGuane, and others.

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547485859

Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time --

The Best American Short Stories 2020

The Best American Short Stories 2020
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Best American Series (R)
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 1328485366

New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.

The Best American Short Stories 2022

The Best American Short Stories 2022
Author: Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0358724392

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

The Best American Short Stories 2021

The Best American Short Stories 2021
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1328485390

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew. The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others