Best Short Stories

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.

Over seventy short stories considered among the finest examples of the storyteller's art.

If you can't decide which new novel or nonfiction book to pick up, here's another idea: try reading a short story collection. Rather than focus on a singular narrative, these unique options weave together the voices of several writers, or focus on multiple stories by an author you know and love."Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."

The relationship between husband and wife and the institution of marriage itself is the driving force of many fiction stories. For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that have marriage as their theme. - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane. - The Marry Month Of May by O. Henry. - The Bridal Party by F. Scott Fitzgerald. - A Wedding Gift by Guy de Maupassant. - The Wedding-Ring by Henry van Dyke. - The Wedding Knell by Nathaniel Hawthorne. - A Golden Wedding by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories.

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

One of the most important and famous cities in the world, New York has been the subject of art for a long time. In this book you will find seven classic short stories selected by the critic August Nemo, these short stories have New York as scenery, character or subject. This book contains: - The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry. - The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers. - A Cup of Water by Edith Wharton. - The Making of a New Yorker by O. Henry. - Paul's Case by Willa Cather. - The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York by Algernon Blackwood. - New York by James Fenimore Cooper.