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The Best American Short Stories 1990
by Richard Ford"The Best American Short Stories" is a yearly anthology of the best of contemporary American writing. All the selected stories are by renowned authors in both the field of fiction and non-fiction, featuring a guest editor who is also an expert in his field.
The Best American Short Stories 1991
by Alice AdamsThis book brings out the best short fiction of the year, selected by Alice Adams. Stories from Updike, Bass, Gordon and more are included in this book.
The Best American Short Stories 1992
by Katrina Kenison Robert StoneFeatures 20 stories from North American magazines by notable authors such Joyce Carol Oates as well as by relative newcomers. Many of the stories are drawn from personal experience whilst the subject matter varies. Common is that the writing is consistently of high quality. The authors write movingly and masterfully, describing experiences ranging from a marine's battles in Vietnam to a young couple's attempt to deal with a miscarriage. The tales not only engage but serve as an inspiration and resource for others interested in writing short stories.
The Best American Short Stories 1993
by Louise ErdrichA compilation of short Stories by Andrea Lee, Thom Jones, John Updike, Mary Gordon, Joanna Scott, Diane Johnson, Antonya Nelson, Harlan Ellison, and Alice Munro.
The Best American Short Stories 1994
by Tobias WolffThis is one of the most well edited collections of contemporary short stories on the market. It may be a few years old by now, but most of the "must read" writers, as well as surprisingly good lesser-known are included.
The Best American Short Stories 1995
by Jane SmileyYearly anthology of the best short stories of 1995, selected by Jane Smiley.
The Best American Short Stories 1996
by John Edgar WidemanYearly anthology of the best short stories, selected this year by John Edgar Wideman.
The Best American Short Stories 1997
by E. Annie ProulxThis year, E. Annie Proulx's selections include stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot Diaz, and T. C. Boyle as well as an array of striking new talent.
The Best American Short Stories 1998
by Garrison KeillorEdited by beloved storyteller Garrison Keillor, this year's volume promises to be full of humor, surprises, and, as always, accomplished writing by new and familiar voices. The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, "The Best American Short Stories" is the only volume that annually offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling author.
The Best American Short Stories 1999
by Amy TanThe stories in this volume deal with modern themes such as the problem of immigration, the problems of death and dying, and the problems of life and its meaning. The stories are written by authors from various cultures and explore issues from a multi-cultural context.
The Best American Short Stories 2000
by E. L. DoctorowDespite increasing competition, this annual collection remains the place to find the most compelling short fiction published in the U.S. and Canada. To usher in the new millennium, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2000 brims with a rich variety of lyrical and wise stories about our country's past, present, and future. This year"s editor, the best-selling author E. L. Doctorow, has chosen new works by Raymond Carver, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Walter Mosley, and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others.
The Best American Short Stories 2001
by Barbara KingsolverThis year's Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver's selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life - my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours.
The Best American Short Stories 2002
by Sue MillerThis collection includes stories about everything from illicit love affairs to family, the immigrant experience and badly behaved children.
The Best American Short Stories 2003
by Walter MosleyYearly anthology of the best short stories, selected this year by Walter Mosley.
The Best American Short Stories 2004
by Lorrie MooreContemplating the appeal of the short story, Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction, "A story's very shortness ensures its largeness of accomplishment, its selfhood and purity. Having long lost its ability to pay an author's rent (in that golden blip between Henry James and television, F. Scott Fitzgerald, for one, wrote stories to fund his novels), the short story has been freed of its commercial life to become serious art, by virtually its every practitioner. As a result, short or long, a story lies less. It sings and informs and blurts. It has nothing to lose." The twenty stories in this year's volume sing to and inform the reader with honesty, intelligence, and often humor. Charles D'Ambrosio's story, "Screenwriter," explores romance in a mental hospital. In "Limestone Diner," Trudy Lewis lays bare one family's strained history in central Missouri. Angela Pneuman's hilarious "All Saints Day" gives readers a child's-eye view of religious fundamentalism. And in John Edgar Wideman's profound story, "What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence," friendship leads to a meditation on freedom and fairness. Lorrie Moore has selected twenty stories that rejoice in the absurdities of life, consider the hard truths, and arrive at potent moments of understanding. With The Best American Short Stories 2004 "Lorrie Moore has done writers and readers a great service," Katrina Kenison writes in her foreword, "for her own love of the form and keen sensibility have resulted in a volume that fairly hums with life."
The Best American Short Stories 2007
by Stephen King Heidi Pitlor20 of the finest American short stories, edited by Stephen King. Includes contributor's notes, the titles of 100 other distinguished stories, and the editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines that publish short stories.
The Best American Short Stories 2008
by Salman Rushdie"This brilliant collection, edited by the award-winning and perennially provocative Rushdie, boasts an array of voices both new and recognized. Always a sure bet for gripping, emotionally challenging reading." San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Best American Short Stories 2009
by Alice SeboldThe collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds."
The Best American Short Stories 2011: The Best American Series (The Best American Series)
by Geraldine Brooks, Heidi PitlorTwenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord. The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers&’s &“To the Measures Fall&” is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical &“The Sleep,&” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser&’s imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in &“Phantoms.&” Allegra Goodman&’s spare but beautiful &“La Vita Nuova&” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in &“Ceiling,&” her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers.The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from: Megan Mayhew Bergman · Tom Bissell • Jennifer Egan • Nathan Englander • Ehud Havazelet • Bret Anthony Johnston • Claire Keegan • Sam Lipsyte • Rebecca Makkai • Elizabeth McCracken • Ricardo Nuila • Joyce Carol Oates • Jess Row • George Saunders • Mark Slouka
The Best American Short Stories 2012 (The Best American Series)
by Tom PerrottaThe Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind. The Best American Short Stories 2012 includes Nathan Englander, Mary Gaitskill, Roxane Gay, Jennifer Haigh, Steven Millhauser, Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, Eric Puchner, George Saunders, Kate Walbert, and others
The Best American Short Stories 2013 (The Best American Series)
by Elizabeth Strout&“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,&” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. &“It&’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.&” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world. In &“Miss Lora,&” Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the &“Magic Man.&” Kirstin Valdez Quade&’s &“Nemecia&” depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham&’s &“The Tunnel&” is a tragic love story about a mother&’s declining health and her daughter&’s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink&’s &“Breatharians&” unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents&’ estrangement.&“Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one&’s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,&” writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. &“Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.&”
The Best American Short Stories 2014 (The Best American Series)
by Heidi Pitlor“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (New York Times Book Review).
The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series)
by T. C. Boyle, Heidi PitlorThe 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.
The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series)
by Junot Díaz“This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz’s ‘rah-rah’ (his term) rallying cry for the form.” —USA Today“If the novel is our culture’s favored literary form, upon which we heap all our desiccated literary laurels, if the novel is, say our Jaime Lannister, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little brother, the perennial underdog. But what an underdog,” writes Junot Diaz in his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2016.From a Nigerian boy’s friendship with his family’s former houseboy to a sweatshop girl’s experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in the academe, these stories, for Diaz, have the economy and power to “break hearts bones vanities and cages.”“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness“Its strongest installment yet . . . Díaz’s compilation is the most diverse and inclusive entry to date of any of the major annual story collections—reason enough to get it in the classroom, and a good vehicle for readers to see what’s up in neighborhoods they may not be familiar with. Essential for every student of the short story form.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“This year’s collection brings together fine stories by famous fiction writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell . . . [while] a great deal of the magic is generated by the appearance of less familiar names.” —The National Book Review
The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series)
by Meg Wolitzer, Heidi PitlorThe 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.