The Best American Short Stories 2018
eBook - ePub

The Best American Short Stories 2018

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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.”

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. MARIA ANDERSON: Cougar
  7. JAMEL BRINKLEY: A Family
  8. YOON CHOI: The Art of Losing
  9. EMMA CLINE: Los Angeles
  10. ALICIA ELLIOTT: Unearth
  11. DANIELLE EVANS: Boys Go to Jupiter
  12. CAROLYN FERRELL: A History of China
  13. ANN GLAVIANO: Come On, Silver
  14. JACOB GUAJARDO: What Got Into Us
  15. CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ: Everything Is Far from Here
  16. KRISTEN ISKANDRIAN: Good with Boys
  17. JOCELYN NICOLE JOHNSON: Control Negro
  18. MATTHEW LYONS: The Brothers Brujo
  19. DINA NAYERI: A Big True
  20. TÉA OBREHT: Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure
  21. RON RASH: The Baptism
  22. AMY SILVERBERG: Suburbia!
  23. CURTIS SITTENFELD: The Prairie Wife
  24. RIVERS SOLOMON: Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver
  25. ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG: What Terrible Thing It Was
  26. Contributors’ Notes
  27. Other Distinguished Stories of 2017
  28. American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
  29. Read More from the Best American Series
  30. About the Editors
  31. Connect with HMH