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The Best American Short Stories 2018
The Best American Short Stories 2018 | Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor
Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this years Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction. I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed, writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world. The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacherall characters and circumstances that show us what we need to know about the lives of others.
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Pinta
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Editor Roxanne Gay‘s choices are interesting—lots of coming-of-age stories. Faves: Maria Anderson‘s “Cougar” for loss, landscape, animals as symbols, Great Pyrenees, quiet but effective language; Matthew Lyons‘ “The Brothers Bruno” for energy of language, brutality & sacrifice, ritual magic / Santeria, allegory of excesses of capitalism; Emma Cline‘s “Los Angeles” for consumer culture, identity, sexuality, turns of phrase, amazing sentences. 2018

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shawnmooney
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Quote from Kristen Iskandrian‘s ‘Good With Boys‘ in The Best American Short Stories 2018

Lindy Hmmmm. 5y
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CamPirrip
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Finally get the chance to get around to reading this collection. ❤️

Nag1 I really loved the stories 5y
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MEGR
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Sometimes all you want for dinner is popcorn 🍿 and short stories 📚

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decaturmamaof2
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Just started, and the first story - "Cougar" by Maria Anderson - slayed me... ??

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keithmalek
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Terrible collection.

hermyknee I haven‘t read this one, but I did love her memoir Hunger - what is your biggest complaint with this collection? 6y
keithmalek @hermyknee The selected stories, with only one or two exceptions, were boring. There's nothing worse than a boring collection, since there's a variety of different voices. But some editors just have poor taste. 6y
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SomedayAlmost
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Gay selects whip smart stories. A good read to start the year! A bonus is that her picks are more diverse than some editors. “Boys Go to Jupiter” is a thought-provoking look at young adult racism in the Insta/Twitter age; it‘s especially good.

BookishMarginalia I need to track this down. 6y
SomedayAlmost I often like The Pushcart Prize anthology better, but this year I really liked the stories in this one. Smaller journals were represented, not just “The New Yorker.” 6y
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wellreadredhead
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Thank you so much @mklong for my #jolabokaflodswap package!

mklong I hope you enjoy it! 6y
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mklong
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I knew that Roxane Gay would be great as the editor of this year‘s Best American Short Stories, and she didn‘t let me down. The stories here represent voices from diverse backgrounds but maintain a common theme of family dynamics and generational and cultural expectations. My favorites were “Good With Boys” and “A Big Truth.”

RJHowe Short stories are a great form. Will definately be picking this one up. 6y
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BooksForEmpathy
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Continuing to crave this pizza over and over again and my new #bookmail! I love Roxane Gay, and trust her book selections always, so I am looking forward to this collection!

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Owlizabeth
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Nice! I got the best food writing anthology this year! 6y
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