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Editor | Andrew Sean Greer and Heidi Pitlor |
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Language | English |
Series | The Best American Short Stories |
Published | 2022 |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
ISBN | 9780358724407 (hardback) |
Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 2021 |
Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 2023 |
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. [1]
The collection of 20 short stories selected from leading magazines in the U.S. was published in November 2022 with a print run of 75,000. [2] It was also issued as an audiobook spoken by five voice actors. [3]
Author | Title | First published |
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Leslie Blanco | "A Ravishing Sun" | New Letters (Vol.87, No.1-2) |
Yohanca Delgado | "The Little Widow from the Capital" | The Paris Review (No. 236) |
Kim Coleman Foote | "Man of the House" | Ecotone (Vol.16, no.2) |
Lauren Groff | "The Wind" | The New Yorker (January 25, 2021) |
Greg Jackson | "The Hollow" | The New Yorker (November 22, 2021) |
Gish Jen | "Detective Dog" | The New Yorker (November 15, 2021) |
Claire Luchette | "Sugar Island" | Ploughshares (Spring 2021) |
Elizabeth McCracken | "The Souvenir Museum" | Harper's Magazine (January 2021) |
Alice McDermott | "Post" | One Story (Issue 280, August 26, 2021 ) |
Kevin Moffett | "Bears Among the Living" | McSweeney's (Issue 63) |
Gina Ochsner | "Soon the Light" | Ploughshares (Winter 2020-21) |
Okwiri Oduor | "Mbiu Dash" | Granta (Issue 156, July 29, 2021) |
Alix Ohlin | "The Meeting" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2021) |
Kenan Orhan | "The Beyoğlu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra" | The Paris Review (Issue 237, Summer 2021) |
Karen Russell | "The Ghost Birds" | The New Yorker (October 4, 2021) |
Sanjena Sathian | "Mr. Ashok's Monument" | Conjunctions (Issue 76, Spring 2021) |
Erin Somers | "Ten Year Affair" | Joyland (February 1, 2021) |
Héctor Tobar | "The Sin of Others" | Zyzzyva (Issue 120) |
Louise Wagner | "Elephant Seals" | AGNI (Issue 93, April 15, 2021) |
Bryan Washington | "Foster" | The New Yorker (June 7, 2021) |
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