The Best American Short Stories 2002

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

This year's Best American Short Stories features a rich mix of voices, from both intriguing new writers and established masters of the form like Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Arthur Miller. The 2002 collection includes stories about everything from illicit love affairs to family, the immigrant experience and badly behaved children -- stories varied in subject but unified in their power and humanity. In the words of this year's guest editor, the best-selling author Sue Miller, The American short story today [is] healthy and strong . . . These stories arrived in the nick of time . . . to teach me once more what we read fiction for.

Author: Sue Miller
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/15/2002
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780618131730

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2002 pg. 1066
Booklist 09/15/2002 pg. 207
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2002 pg. 50
Library Journal 09/15/2002

About the Author
Miller, Sue: - Sue Miller is the best-selling author of The Good Mother (also a feature film), Interviewing the Abbotts (also a feature film), Family Pictures (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), For Love, The Distinguished Guest, While I Was Gone (an Oprah pick), and The World Below.