The Best American Short Stories 2012

The acclaimed author "assembles a stellar collection of twenty stories that create their own worlds in twenty pages or less" (USA Today).

Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction."

In Nathan Englander s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a playful discussion between two marr...