The Best American Short Stories 2020 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor Curtis Sittenfeld.[1]
Short stories included
| Author |
Title |
First published
|
| Selena Anderson |
"Godmother Tea" |
Oxford American (September 3, 2019)
|
| T. C. Boyle |
"The Apartment" |
McSweeney's (Nr. 56, 2019)
|
| Jason Brown |
"A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed" |
The Sewanee Review (December 2019)
|
| Michael Byers |
"Sibling Rivalry" |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (issue 40, 2019)
|
| Emma Cline |
"The Nanny" |
The Paris Review (no.231)
|
| Marion Crotty |
"Hallowween" |
Crazyhorse (no. 96, 2019)
|
| Carolyn Ferrell |
"Something Street" |
Story (no. 5, 2019)
|
| Mary Gaitskill |
"This is Pleasure" |
The New Yorker (July 8, 2019)
|
| Meng Jin |
"In the Event" |
The Threepenny Review (Issue 159, Fall 2019)
|
| Andrea Lee |
"The Children" |
The New Yorker (June 10 & 17, 2019)
|
| Sarah Thankam Mathews |
"Rubberdust" |
Kenyon Review Online (Jan-Feb 2019)
|
| Elizabeth McCracken |
"It's Not You" |
Zoetrope: All-Story {Vol. 23, no. 3, 2019)
|
| Scott Nadelson |
"Liberté" |
Chicago Quarterly Review (no. 29, Fall 2019)
|
| Leigh Newman |
"Howl Palace" |
The Paris Review (no. 230, 2019)
|
| Jane Pek |
"The Nine-Tailed Fox Explains" |
Witness (Vol. XXXII, no. 1, 2019)>
|
| Alejandro Puyana |
"The Hands of Dirty Children" |
American Short Fiction (Vol. 22, no. 68)
|
| Anna Reeser |
"Octopus VII" |
The Threepenny Review (Issue 25, 2019)
|
| William Pei Shih |
"Enlightenment" |
Virginia Quarterly Review (Vol 95/2, 2019)
|
| Kevin Wilson |
"Kennedy" |
Subtropics (issue 27, 2019)
|
| Tiphanie Yanique |
"The Special World" |
The Georgia Review (Winter 2019)
|
References
- ^ Pitlor, Heidi and Sittenfeld, Curtis (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2020 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2020.