The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.
— Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe 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).