The Best American Short Stories (Paperback)
Staff Reviews
I wait for this to come out every fall. Some years are definitely better
than others. So far this seems like a knockout! Lauren Groff's story
of a boy growing up among reptiles in a home without much love is
heart-stopping and simply stellar. Laura Van den Berg's Antarctica
tells of a woman retrieving her brother's bones, but much more than
that in her tale of grief. I look forward to savoring the rest.
I wait for this to come out every fall. Some years are definitely better than others. So far this seems like a knockout! Lauren Groff's story of a boy growing up among reptiles in a home without much love is heart-stopping and simply stellar. Laura Van den Berg's Antarctica tells of a woman retrieving her brother's bones, but much more than that in her tale of grief. I look forward to savoring the rest.
— From Sally Recommends...Description
"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 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).
