“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).
