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The Best American Short Stories 2018
About this book
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 love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher—all characters and circumstances that show us what we “need to know about the lives of others.”
“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 love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher—all characters and circumstances that show us what we “need to know about the lives of others.”
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Introduction
- MARIA ANDERSON: Cougar
- JAMEL BRINKLEY: A Family
- YOON CHOI: The Art of Losing
- EMMA CLINE: Los Angeles
- ALICIA ELLIOTT: Unearth
- DANIELLE EVANS: Boys Go to Jupiter
- CAROLYN FERRELL: A History of China
- ANN GLAVIANO: Come On, Silver
- JACOB GUAJARDO: What Got Into Us
- CRISTINA HENRĂQUEZ: Everything Is Far from Here
- KRISTEN ISKANDRIAN: Good with Boys
- JOCELYN NICOLE JOHNSON: Control Negro
- MATTHEW LYONS: The Brothers Brujo
- DINA NAYERI: A Big True
- TĂA OBREHT: Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure
- RON RASH: The Baptism
- AMY SILVERBERG: Suburbia!
- CURTIS SITTENFELD: The Prairie Wife
- RIVERS SOLOMON: Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver
- ESMĂ WEIJUN WANG: What Terrible Thing It Was
- Contributorsâ Notes
- Other Distinguished Stories of 2017
- American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
- Read More from the Best American Series
- About the Editors
- Connect with HMH