The Best American Short Stories 2018
by Roxane Gay
2020-12-29 14:49:19
The Best American Short Stories 2018
by Roxane Gay
2020-12-29 14:49:19
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year''s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country''s finest short fiction. I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," w...
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Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year''s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country''s finest short fiction.
I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher-all characters and circumstances that show us what we "needto know about the lives of others.""
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