The best American short stories 2014 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines

"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 ). Charity -- Charles Baxter The Indian uprising -- Ann Beattie The night of the satellite -- T.C. Boyle After the flood -- Peter Cameron Long Tom Lookout -- Nicole Cullen Medium tough -- Craig Davidson The breeze -- Joshua Ferris Hover -- Nell Freudenberger A hand reached down to guide me -- David Gates At the round earth's imagined corners -- Lauren Groff The judge's will -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Evie M. -- O.A. Lindsey Kattekoppen -- Will Mackin This is not a love song -- Brendan Mathews La Pulchra Nota -- Molly McNett God -- Benjamin Nugent Mastiff -- Joyce Carol Oates Next to nothing -- Stephen O'Connor Madame Bovary's greyhound -- Karen Russell Antarctica -- Laura Van Den Berg. Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.