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Editor | Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor |
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Language | English |
Series | The Best American Short Stories |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
ISBN | 9780547868868 (paperback) |
Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 2017 |
Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 2019 |
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. [1]
Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
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Maria Anderson | "Cougar" | The Iowa Review |
Jamel Brinkley | "A Family" | Gulf Coast |
Yoon Choi | "The Art of Losing" | New England Review |
Emma Cline | "Los Angeles" | Granta |
Alicia Elliott | "Unearth" | Grain |
Danielle Evans | "Boys Go to Jupiter" | The Sewanee Review |
Carolyn Ferrell | "A History of China" | Ploughshares: Solos Omnibus |
Ann Glaviano | "Come on, Silver" | Tin House |
Jacob Guajardo | "What Got Into Us" | Passages North |
Cristina Henríquez | "Everything Is Far From Here" | The New Yorker |
Kristen Iskandrian | "Good with Boys" | ZYZZYVA |
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | "Control Negro" | Guernica |
Matthew Lyons | "The Brothers Brujo" | Tough |
Dina Nayeri | "A Big True" | The Southern Review |
Téa Obreht | "Items Awaiting Protective Enclosure" | Zoetrope |
Ron Rash | "The Baptism" | The Southern Review |
Amy Silverberg | "Suburbia!" | The Southern Review |
Curtis Sittenfeld | "The Prairie Wife" | The New Yorker |
Rivers Solomon | "Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver" | Emrys Journal |
Esmé Weijun Wang | "What Terrible Thing It Was" | Granta |
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 stories, reprinting short stories 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."
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