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  • Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ISBN: 0544582942
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also lo... [Read More]

  • Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 054458290X
    • ISBN: 054458290X
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “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 t... [Read More]

  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ISBN: 0547485859
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547939418
    • ISBN: 0547939418
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    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 ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2004 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442197359
    • ASIN: 0618197354
    • ISBN: 0618197354
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

    Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547868863
    • ISBN: 9780547868868
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “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 Vis... [Read More]

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544526759
    • ISBN: 9780544526754
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Holly... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547554834
    • ISBN: 0547554834
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “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 maki... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0547055323
    • ISBN: 9780547055329
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying “chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative” (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2009 (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442792257
    • ASIN: 0618792252
    • ISBN: 9780618792252
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" (Chicago Tribune). The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" (St. Louis P... [Read More]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949099
    • ISBN: 0544949099
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year. Writing short stories takes “Skill. Discipline. Knowledge of the form while not being formulaic,... [Read More]

  • Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544949080
    • ISBN: 0544949080
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    "Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly “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 situ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0547242107
    • ISBN: 0547242107
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The 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... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2001 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442926881
    • ASIN: 0395926882
    • ISBN: 0395926882
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    This 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. “Rea... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 1997: Selected from U.s. and Canadian Magazines

    • UPC: 046442798655
    • ASIN: 0395798655
    • ISBN: 0395798655
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The best-selling story anthology includes both old and new talent, including Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Robert Stone, Cynthia Ozick, and Junot Diaz, and features works divided into such categories as "Perceived Social Values." Simultaneous.

  • Best American Short Stories 07 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442713481
    • ASIN: 0618713484
    • ISBN: 0618713484
    • Manufacturer: Best American

    In his introduction to this volume, Stephen King writes, “Talent does more than come out; it bursts out, again and again, doing exuberant cartwheels while the band plays 'Stars and Stripes Forever' . . . Talent can’t help itself; it roars along in fair weather or foul, not sparing the fireworks. It gets emotional. It struts its stuff. In fact, ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544582896
    • ISBN: 0544582896
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, ca... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2006 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442543521
    • ASIN: 061854352X
    • ISBN: 061854352X
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees, blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you can think about,” writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2006. ... [Read More]

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

    • ASIN: 0525436588
    • ISBN: 0525436588
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations fr... [Read More]

  • The Alchemist

    • ASIN: 0062315005
    • ISBN: 0062315005
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

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