The Best American Short Stories 2020
By Heidi Pitlor, Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld, Curtis Sittenfeld, N. M. Bodecker, others, various authors, Kevin Wilson, Emma Cline, and T. C. Boyle
Read by Ilyana Kadushin, William DeMeritt, Cindy Kay, Gary Bennett, Michael Crouch, Brittany Pressley, Tracey Leigh, Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Woo Zeller, Ramón de Ocampo, Thérèse Plummer, Soneela Nankani, Rebecca Lowman, Gabra Zackman, Priya Ayyar, Peter Ganim, Robert Fass, Kevin T. Collins, Suzanne Toren, Robert Petkoff, Robin Miles, and various narrators
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“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others
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“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish.
THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL
ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others
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Author Bio: Heidi Pitlor
Heidi Pitlor is the author of the novels The Birthdays and The Daylight Marriage. She has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007 and the editorial director of Plympton, a literary studio. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, Ploughshares, and the anthologies It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art and Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers.
Author Bio: Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of New York Times bestselling books and short story collections that have been translated into thirty languages and twice selected as Reese’s Book Club picks. Her stories have also appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories.
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Author Bio: N. M. Bodecker
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Author Bio: various authors
Author Bio: Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang, named a best book of the year by Time, People, Salon, and Esquire. His story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the Shirley Jackson Award. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Author Bio: Emma Cline
Emma Cline is from California. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House and the Paris Review, and she was the recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction in 2014.
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Author Bio: T. C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and Frances’ Prix Médicis étranger in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City, a New York Times bestseller, was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. He has also won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern California.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Runtime: | 16.32 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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