The Best American Short Stories 2022 (Mariner 2022), selected and edited by fiction writer Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2003), presents as strong a selection of writing as the ...

Everyone knows the pleasures of settling in with a good book, but most often when people think of reading, they think about chunky novels that might take weeks or even months to work through. And ...

American short fiction has always thrived on intensity. Within a few pages, it can capture a lifetime, a heartbreak, or a national mood. The following pieces (tragic, witty, haunting, and strange) ...

J.D. O’Brien’s short story “Outlaw Country” was included “The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025” anthology. Reminder ...

SOMETHING has gone wrong of late with short-story writers. Something has happened to them; and what that something is, still more why it is, are worth considering, short stories being now, as they ...

Louis Auchincloss / John Breitmeyer -- Frederick Barthelme / John Hughes -- Pinckney Benedict / Brad Vice -- Michael Brodsky / John C. Hawley -- Ron Carlson / Jay Boyer -- Alan Cheuse / Jay Boyer -- ...

I’ve been reading the Best American series. To be exact, I’ve been reading it for 35 years, since high school, when I found a copy of the “Best American Short Stories” 1986 (edited by Raymond Carver) ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version had an incorrect byline; the author of the article is Ann Levin, special to USA TODAY. Ten years ago, Danielle Evans made a splash in the literary ...

THOSE of us who keep a watchful eye on the short story — as I must, since I am charged with the responsibility of choosing some twenty stories each year for the O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories — ...

Toni Cade Bambara / Teri Ann Doerksen -- Robert Bausch / Richard E. Lee -- Ann Beattie / Gwen Crane -- Madison Smartt Bell / Muriel A. Charpentier -- Doris Betts / Deborah E. Barker -- Paul Bowles / ...