The Best American Short Stories 2016 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0544582756 ISBN 13: 9780544582750

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

Synopsis

The Best American Short Stories 2016

About this title

About the Authors

Pulitzer Prize–winner Junot Díaz had established himself as a major writer with Drown before his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named Time's #1 Fiction Book of the Year and spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Díaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
 

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.

From the Back Cover

The Best American Series®


CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
MOHAMMED NASEEHU ALI
TAHMIMA ANAM
ANDREA BARRETT
SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM
TED CHIANG
LOUISE ERDRICH
YALITZA FERRERAS
LAUREN GROFF
MERON HADERO
SMITH HENDERSON
LISA KO
BEN MARCUS
CAILLE MILLNER
DANIEL J. O MALLEY
KAREN RUSSELL
YUKO SAKATA
SHARON SOLWITZ
HÉCTOR TOBAR
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN

From the Inside Flap

If the novel is our culture s favored literary form, upon which we heap all our desiccated literary laurels, if the novel is, say our Jaime Lannister, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little brother, the perennial underdog. But what an underdog, writes Junot Díaz in his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2016.

From a Nigerian boy s friendship with his family s former houseboy to a sweatshop girl s experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in the academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to break hearts bones vanities and cages.

Ten years into her role as series editor, Heidi Pitlor confides, A great pleasure of my job is the rush that comes with discovery...I m reading a new story and not checking how long it is or what time I have to pick up the kids. I m reading and feeling and thinking, and, if I m lucky, laughing too. I m not working at all. A great story has that power: it removes you from your life. It lifts you away from a while. Junot Díaz and I found much to discover this year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544582756
• ISBN 13: 9780544582750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311