Best american short stories 2014 - Brossura

BASS 2013:"As a whole this collection is wildly divergent and entertaining, and each story is cultivated with a keen eye for voice and character."  – Booklist "Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus BASS 2012:"A typically strong selection ... that should please readers who love the traditional pleasures of storytelling, through voices that are thoroughly contemporary." – Kirkus "The best short stories are small only when measured by the number of pages. Editor Tom Perrotta...assembles a stellar collection of 20 stories that create their own worlds in 20 pages or less." –USA Today BASS 2011:"Children and their parents feature prominently, if predictably, in this year's collection, which includes stories by three Pulitzer Prize-winners....Though many of the names here are familiar, this powerful new work re-establishes these authors' command of the form." –Publisher's Weekly "Another stellar selection from an anthology that has sustained high standards for 35 years..Each one of these stories could establish itself as some reader’s favorite." – Kirkus, STARRED BASS past praise:"Russo has compiled a collection of consistently entertaining fiction that engages itself with this world (rather than conjuring its own world or reducing the world of fiction to words)... with even the few of the newsstand magazines that publish fiction publishing less of it, the stories themselves seem as vital as ever. Any reader will likely discover a new favorite writer here, or more." – Booklist, STARRED

"...the anthology's chorus of 20 stories...are by turns playful, ironic, somber and meditative...the authors generally are writers with proven track records...The anthology feels rooted in the real world...[and is], more uniformly satisfying than some "Best" outings have been..." – The Wall Street Journal  

BASS 2013:"As a whole this collection is wildly divergent and entertaining, and each story is cultivated with a keen eye for voice and character."  – Booklist "Plenty of great stories...For the reader whose consumption of short stories doesn't extend much beyond this yearly collection, the latest delivers the goods...The collection includes a number of writers widely regarded as masters of the form." – Kirkus

The Best American Series

“People will keep reading fiction as long as it provides an experience of pleasure and insight that they can't find anywhere else," writes guest editor Jennifer Egan. The Best American Short Stories 2014 provides pleasurable and insightful fiction that compels, surprises, and engages. From a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit to the human face of American forces who have served in Afghanistan, from the rise and fall of an indie rocker to the fate of Madame Bovary’s greyhound, the stories in this collection, according to Egan, explore “the wider world at this specific point in time.”

The Best American Short Stories 2014 includes Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, T. C. Boyle, Joshua Ferris, Lauren Groff, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Russell, Laura van den Berg, and others.

[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] JENNIFER EGAN, editor, is the author of The Invisible Circus, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and the best-selling The Keep. Her latest book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, a national bestseller, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and the forthcoming The Daylight Marriage.