From Barnes & NobleThe Best American Short Stories series began in 1915, but it wasn't until 1978, when Houghton Mifflin hit on the idea of guest editors that the once popular annuals soared to unprecedented heights. This year's anthology is hosted by Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Jennifer Egan. She presides over a 364-page gathering of short stories by writers known and unknown. A trade paperback and NOOK Book original.
Kirkus Reviews2014-09-09
The latest installment in a venerable series whose origin stretches back a full century.In her slender but charming introduction, guest editor and novelist Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2010, etc.) recalls that she'd been publishing short stories for 21 years "before I managed to eke one into these pages!" Never mind the misuse of "eke"; we know what she means, and the fact is that there's a lottery aspect to the whole enterprise.
