The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
The Best American Short Stories 2011includes
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan,
Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman,
Ehud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser,
George Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others
A collection of the year's best short stories from American periodicals as chosen by Pulizer Prize author Geraldine Brooks.
In this anthology series celebrating American short fiction annually since 1915, each year a different renowned writer chooses the best 20 stories of that year..
.Brooks does the honors impressively. --
Booklist Though many of the names here are familiar, this
powerful new workre-establishes these authors' command of the form.
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Publishers Weekly Another
stellar selectionfrom an anthology that has sustained high standards for 35 years..
Each one of these stories could establish itself as some reader’s favorite.
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Kirkus, starred
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