The Best American Short Stories 2022
The Best American Short Stories 2022
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Overview
Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798212038638 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 11/01/2022 |
| Series: | Best American Series |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d) |
About the Author
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 and The Daylight Marriage.
Shawn K. Jain is a Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater School/A.R.T. Institute graduate. Shawn has TV credits for shows on Apple TV+, CBS, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Showtime, and Peacock, and he has narrated audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Hachette, Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Epic!, Blackstone, GraphicAudio, and HQN. Shawn can be heard on many episodes of the romcom podcast Meet Cute and on Atypical Artists' audio dramas Life with LEO(h) and Maxine Miles. He also voiced a migrant worker for UCLA Labor Center's Re:Work Radio podcast. Sean Daniels, artistic director of Arizona Theatre Company, said he finds "few actors funnier in the world than Shawn."
Prior to saying yes to his calling to be an actor, Shawn was a communications and marketing professional who did important work with organizations like the ACLU and the International AIDS Society. Born and raised in Northern California, Shawn received his BA from UC Berkeley. In addition to acting, Shawn has several pilots in development. Shawn writes stories that deal with the brokenness of people and society (even when things seem glittering and beautiful on the outside). Shawn is queer and of South Asian descent. A native English speaker who is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Hindi, Shawn can do British, Farsi, Hindi, Indian, Urdu, and Arabic accents.
Cherise Boothe, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has worked extensively in theater, film, television, and narration. She has appeared in numerous regional plays, as well as in television shows such as The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, and Gossip Girl. She holds an MFA in acting from New York University. She was a finalist in 2015 for the prestigious Audie Award for best multivoiced narration.
Carolina Hoyos is a talented stage and film actor, director, and audiobook narrator whose childhood as a competitive classical concert pianist and elementary school chorus accompanist was enriched with acting and directing. She was named a Fellow in La Skins Fest Native American TV Writers Lab and is a West Hollywood Directing Artist Grantee.
Cindy Kay is an experienced audiobook narrator with a home studio. Chinese-Thai-American, she lives with her spouse in Salt Lake City.
Hometown:
San Francisco, CaliforniaDate of Birth:
November 21, 1970Place of Birth:
Washington, D.C.Education:
B.A. in English, Brown University, 1992; M.F.A . in Fiction, University of Montana, 1996Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xii
A Ravishing Sun Leslie Blanco 1
From New Letters
The Little Widow from the Capital Yohanca Delgado 18
From The Paris Review
Man of the House Kim Coleman Foote 29
From Ecotone
The Wind Lauren Groff 50
From The New Yorker
The Hollow Greg Jackson 60
From The New Yorker
Detective Dog Gish Jen 77
From The New Yorker
Sugar Island Claire Luchette 97
From Ploughshares
The Souvenir Museum Elizabeth McCracken 105
From Harper's
Post Alice McDermott 121
From One Story
Bears Among the Living Kevin Moffett 140
From McSweeney's
Soon the Light Gina Ochsner 153
From Ploughshares
Mbiu Dash Okwiri Oduor 167
From Granta
The Meeting Alix Ohlin 180
From Virginia Quarterly Review
The Beyoglu Municipality Waste-Management Orchestra Kenan Orhan 193
From The Paris Review
The Ghost Birds Karen Russell 210
From The New Yorker
Mr. Ashok's Monument Sanjena Sathian 230
From Conjunctions
Ten Year Affair Erin Somers 254
From Joyland
The Sins of Others Héctor Tobar 263
From Zyzzyva
Elephant Seals Meghan Louise Wagner 275
From Agni
Foster Bryan Washington 289
From The New Yorker
Contributors' Notes 309
Other Distinguished Stories of 2021 325
American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories 329