{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2020-9781328485373","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eseries. \"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 \u003c\/b\u003eINCLUDES T. C. BOYLE - EMMA CLINE - MARY GAITSKILL \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANDREA LEE - ELIZABETH McCRACKEN - ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH - KEVIN WILSON and others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCURTIS SITTENFELD, guest editor, is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of the novels \u003ci\u003ePrep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRodham, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich have been translated into thirty languages. She is also the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Think It, I'll Say It \u003c\/i\u003eand her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Magazine, Esquire, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in Minneapolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e HEIDI PITLOR has been the series editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003esince 2007. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eImpersonation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545480401170,"sku":"9781328485373","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_acda95ad-be96-4b62-9126-9cbe717de1f4.jpg?v=1731548835","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2020-9781328485373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}