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Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the years best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award FinalistPachinko,selectstwenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish."--Provided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward 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,...
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