The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldnt go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome, writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here youll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on Americas Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a fatherunforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. Maidencane / Chad B. Anderson -- Are we not men? / T.C. Boyle -- God's work / Kevin Canty -- A small sacrifice for an enormous happiness / Jai Chakrabarti -- Arcadia / Emma Cline -- Hog for sorrow / Leopoldine Core -- Campoamor / Patricia Engel -- Richard of York gave battle in vain / Danielle Evans -- Ugly / Mary Gordon -- The midnight zone / Lauren Groff -- The Chicane / Amy Hempel -- Tally / Noy Holland -- Gabe Dove / Sonya Larson -- Let's go to the videotape / Fiona Maazel -- Ancient Rome / Kyle McCarthy -- Last day on earth / Eric Puchner -- Novostroka / Maria Reva -- Telemachus / Jim Shepherd -- Gender Studies / Curtis Sittenfeld -- Famous actor / Jess Walter Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction."If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome," writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you'll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America's Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father-unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell.T. C. BOYLE • JAI CHAKRABARTI • EMMA CLINE • DANIELLE EVANS • LAUREN GROFF • ERIC PUCHNER • JIM SHEPARD • CURTIS SITTENFELD • JESS WALTERand others Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. MEG WOLITZER, guest editor, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking.HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage The New York Times –bestselling author of The Interestings compiles a stunning anthology of literary short fiction with T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline and others. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction to this volume. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America’s Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father—unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. The Best American Short Stories 2017 includes entries by T.C. Boyle, Jai Chakrabarti, Emma Cline, Danielle Evans, Lauren Groff, Eric Puchner, Jim Shepard, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jenn Walter and others. "[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." — USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), making her the perfect person to helm this literary time capsule of a collection. Presents A Selection Of The Best Works Of Short Fiction Of The Past Year From A Variety Of Acclaimed Sources. Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources