The Best American Short Stories

Brief Description: A collection of the year's best short stories, as published in American periodicals. Publisher Marketing: Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ("Wall Street Journal"). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" ("Chicago Tribune") this year. Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2010 (EAN 9780547055329, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 12/06/2010 (EAN 9780547055329, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Russo, Richard Richard Russo is the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, and Straight Man. He lives off the coast of Maine with his wife and two daughters. Contributor Bio:  Pitlor, Heidi 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 Birthdays and a forthcoming novel titled The Daylight Marriage.