The Best American Short Stories 2017

by Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor

Overview

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.

The Best American Short Stories 2017 includes 
T. C. BOYLE • JAI CHAKRABARTI • EMMA CLINE • DANIELLE EVANS • LAUREN GROFF • ERIC PUCHNER • JIM SHEPARD • CURTIS SITTENFELD • JESS WALTER
and others

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544582903
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Series:	Best American Series
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

MEG WOLITZER is the New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

May 28, 1959

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York

Education:

B.A., Brown University, 1981

Website:

http://www.megwolitzer.com