Overview
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year?s?Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country?s finest short fiction.
?I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,? writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to?The Best American Short Stories 2018, ?but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.? The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher?all characters and circumstances that show us what we ?need to know about the lives of others.?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781328506672 |
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| Publisher: | HMH Books |
| Publication date: | 10/02/2018 |
| Series: | Best American Short Stories Series |
| Sold by: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Format: | NOOK Book |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Sales rank: | 81,029 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
ROXANE GAY, guest editor, is the author of the bestsellers?Bad Feminist,Difficult Women,?and?Hunger,?as well as the booksAyiti?and?An Untamed State.
HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is the author of the novels?The Birthdays?and?The Daylight Marriage.
ROXANE GAY, guest editor, is the author of the?New York Times?bestsellers?Bad Feminist?and?Hunger, which received the NBCC Members? Choice Award; the novel?An Untamed State, a finalist for the?Dayton Peace Prize; and the short story collections?Difficult Women?and?Ayiti. She is also the editor of the?New York Times?best-selling?Not That Bad. A contributing opinion writer to the?New York Times, she has also written for?Time,?McSweeney?s, the?Virginia Quarterly Review, the?Los Angeles Times, and?The Nation, among others. She is the author of the World of Wakanda series for Marvel.
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.
