“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —
Shelf Awareness for Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2014
will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for
A Visit from the Goon Squad,
heralded by
Time
magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (
New York Times Book Review
).