The Best American Short Stories 2017 [Paperback]

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

“If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction.The Best American Short Stories 2017casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant onAmerica’s Funniest Home Videos,and a gay man desperate to be a father—unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell.

The Best American Short Stories 2017includes 
T. C. BOYLE • JAI CHAKRABARTI • EMMA CLINE • DANIELLE EVANS • LAUREN GROFF • ERIC PUCHNER • JIM SHEPARD • CURTIS SITTENFELD • JESS WALTER
and others

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’sBest American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.

MEG WOLITZER, guest editor, is theNew York Timesbest-selling author ofThe Interestings,The Uncoupling,The Ten-Year Nap,The Position,The Wife, andSleepwalking. 

HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is the author of the novelsThe BirthdaysandThe Daylight Marriage.