The Best American Short Stories 2017

Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 132876673X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
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 2014

Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547819226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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

The Best American Short Stories 2019

Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 1328465829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
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 2012

Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547242107
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Author: Maria Anderson (Fiction author)
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544582888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
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 2016

Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544582897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Award-winning and best-selling author Junot Díaz guest edits this year's The Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

The Best American Short Stories 2015

Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054793940X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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

The Best American Mystery Stories 2017

Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054494920X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more. “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—although there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes entries by C.J. Box, Gerri Brightwell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Trina Corey, Craig Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and others.

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Best American Series (R)
ISBN: 1328485366
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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

The Best American Short Stories 2021

Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328485390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
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