The Best American Short Stories 2012

The Best American Series(R)
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

The Best American Short Stories 2012 includes

Nathan Englander, Mary Gaitskill, Roxane Gay, Jennifer Haigh,
Steven Millhauser, Alice Munro, Lawrence Osborne, Eric Puchner,
George Saunders, Kate Walbert, and others

Author: Tom Perrotta,Heidi Pitlor
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780547242101

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2012

About the Author
Perrotta, Tom: -

TOM PERROTTA is the author of six works of fiction, most recently The Leftovers, published to wide acclaim in September 2011. His novels Election and Little Children were made into award-winning movies.Pitlor, Heidi: -

Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.