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| Editor | Tom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780547242101 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 2011 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 2013 |
The Best American Short Stories 2012, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Tom Perotta. [1]
| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
|---|---|---|
| Carol Anshaw | "The Last Speaker of the Language" | New Ohio Review |
| Taylor Antrim | "Pilgrim Life" | American Short Fiction |
| Nathan Englander | "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Gaitskill | "The Other Place" | The New Yorker |
| Roxane Gay | "North Country" | Hobart |
| Jennifer Haigh | "Paramour" | Ploughshares |
| Mike Meginnis | "Navigators" | Hobart |
| Steven Millhauser | "Miracle Polish" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Axis" | The New Yorker |
| Lawrence Osborne | "Volcano" | Tin House |
| Julie Otsuka | "Diem Perdidi" | Granta |
| Edith Pearlman | "Honeydew" | Orion |
| Angela Pneuman | "Occupational Hazard" | Ploughshares |
| Eric Puchner | "Beautiful Monsters" | Tin House |
| George Saunders | "Tenth of December" | The New Yorker |
| Taiye Selasi | "The Sex Lives of African Girls" | Granta |
| Sharon Solwitz | "Alive" | Fifth Wednesday Journal |
| Kate Walbert | "M&M World" | The New Yorker |
| Jess Walter | "Anything Helps" | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| Adam Wilson | "What's Important is Feeling" | The Paris Review |
The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature. Along with the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories is one of the two "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction."
The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.
The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.
The Best American Short Stories 2006, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Ann Patchett. This edition is notable in that it was the last edition edited by Katrina Kenison, who was succeeded by Heidi Pitlor the following year. Also, Patchett chose to present the stories in reverse-alphabetical order.
The Best American Short Stories 2009, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Alice Sebold.
William Malatinsky is an American author and frequent contributor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. His fiction was short-listed for the Best American Short Stories in 2006 and 2010.
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Sharon Solwitz is a fiction writer and professor based in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of the short story collection Blood and Milk and the novels Bloody Mary and Once, in Lourdes. Tom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor selected her story "Alive" for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012, and her story "Gifted" was chosen for the 2016 collection. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991, and teaches creative writing at Purdue University.
The Best American Short Stories 2014, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Jennifer Egan.
The Best American Short Stories 2015, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor T. C. Boyle.
The Best American Short Stories 2016, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Junot Díaz.
The Best American Short Stories 2017, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Meg Wolitzer.
The Best American Short Stories 2018, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Roxane Gay.
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The Best American Short Stories 2020 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor Curtis Sittenfeld.
The Best American Short Stories 2021 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward.
The Best American Short Stories 2022 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Andrew Sean Greer.
The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and National Book Award finalist, Min Jin Lee.
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