short stories, american

Presents twenty O. Henry Prize-winning short stories, including works by Wendell Berry, Caitlin Macy, and Sherman Alexie, and includes comments by the authors and the volume's story jurors.

Contains seventeen selected Southern short stories published during the preceding year in American magazines and literary journals.

A collection of American short stories, deemed the best of the genre from the year 2012 and selected by editor Tom Perrotta, including work by writers such as Alice Munro, Nathan Englander, and Mary Gaitskill.

A collection of 125 essays which provide information on the major writers and themes related to twentieth-century American short stories.