'100 Years of the Best American Short Stories' is loaded with recent writers, ... Lorrie Moore, the revered short-story writer who serves as guest editor of “100 Years,” has fallen short.

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 ...

THE GRANTA BOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY. Edited by Richard Ford. Granta Books/Viking. 710 pages. $27.50. In such a volume of short stories as this, two questions invariably occur. One is how th… ...

A glance at the fall issue of Boulevard: Three short-story writers contemplate the formThe journal features a transcript from a panel at the University of Cincinnati’s Festival of the Short ...

The latest book from the celebrated American novelist is a collection of short stories pulled from his decades-long career. Exploring themes of isolation and solitude, The Angel Esmeralda charts a ...

Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, one of the first Asian American writers to earn literary distinction after World War II with highly polished short stories that illuminated a world circumscribed by culture ...

Two Oregon writers are included in "The Best American Short Stories 2011," one of the highest honors in the genre, and two Portland magazines published stories that were selected for the annual ...

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 ...

The American Short Story. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was ...

For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...