America’s most talented storytellers share their most interesting, engaging, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Praised early on by num

America's most talented storytellers share their most courageous, compelling, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers. Praised early on by Bill

The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

"In her introduction, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a 'sense of repair.' The stories in this year's collection accomplis

The acclaimed author presents an anthology of “confrontational and at times confounding . . . stories to get lost in” by Colum McCann, Victor Lodato and oth