For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...

100 YEARS OF THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. How to boil down a century of great writing to just 40 stories?

The guest editor of this year’s “Best American Short Stories” collection is Salman Rushdie, the first writer who isn’t American or Canadian to select the 20 stories to be featured in the ...

I’ve been reading the Best American series. To be exact, I’ve been reading it for 35 years, since high school, when I found a copy of the “Best American Short Stories” 1986 (edited by ...

As guest editor of the 2012 edition of the annual anthology "Best American Short Stories," Tom Perrotta read more than 100 stories in order to choose the 20 that would appear in the book.

The new book “100 Years of the Best American Short Stories” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 752 pp., $30) serves as a meta-anthology that celebrates the series’ long run.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is honoring the 100th birthday of its short fiction compilation Best American Short Stories with a special anniversary edition, edited by Lorrie Moore, called '100 Years ...