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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year’s collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to satisfy this year.

Foreword by Heidi Pitlor

Introduction by Geraldine Brooks

Ceiling

By Chimamandangozi Adichie

from Granta

 

Housewifely Arts

By Megan Mayhew Bergman

from One Story

 

A Bridge Under Water

Tom Bissell

from Agni

 

Out of Body

Jennifer Egan

from Tin House

 

Free Fruit for Young Widows

Nathan Englander

from The New Yorker

 

La Vita Nuova

Allegra Goodman

from The New Yorker

 

Gurov in Manhattan

Ehud Havazelet

from TriQuarterly

 

The Sleep

Caitlin Horrocks

from The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle

 

Soldier of Fortune

Bret Anthony Johnston

from Glimmer Train

 

Foster

Claire Keegan

from The New Yorker

 

 

The Dungeon Master

Sam Lipsyte

from The New Yorker

 

Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart

Rebecca Makkai

from Tin House

 

Property

Elizabeth McCracken

from Granta

 

Phantoms

Steven Millhauser

from McSweeney’s

 

Dog Bites

Ricardo Nuila

from McSweeney’s

 

ID

Joyce Carol Oates

from The New Yorker

 

To the Measures Fall

Richard Powers

from The New Yorker

 

The Call of Blood

Jess Row

from Harvard Review


Escape from Spiderhead

George Saunders

from The New Yorker

 

The Hare’s Mask

Mark Slouka

from Harper’s Magazine

 

Other distinguished short stories, selected by series editor Heidi Pitlor.

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Adrian, Chris The Warm Fuzzies The New Yorker
Ahuja, Akshay The Gates Crab Orchard Review
Alarcon, Daniel Second Lives. The New Yorker
Allio, Kirstin Green New England Review
Antopol, Molly The Quietest Man One Story
Batkie, Sara Cleavage Gulf Coast
Baxter, Charles Mr. Scary Ploughshares
Baxter, Charles The Winner Tin House
Beattie, Ann Playing to the Bear Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Bell, Madison Smartt Prey Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Bezmozgis, David The Train of Their Departure The New Yorker
Boggs, Belle Imperial Chrysanthemum The Paris Review
Boyle, T. C. The Silence The Atlantic
Brooks, Kim A Difficult Daughter Glimmer Train
Brown, Carrie Bomb Glimmer Train
Bynum, Sarah Shun-Lien The Erkling The New Yorker
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Cameron, Peter Hearsay The Yale Review
Canty, Kevin Spring Recital Northwest Review
Chaon, Dan To Psychic Underworld Tin House
Chase, Katie The Sea That Leads to All Seas Prairie Schooner
Cooper, Rand Richards Labyrinth Commonweal
Cozza, Martin Pennsylvania Polka Colorado Review
DeLillo, Don Hammer and Sickle Harper’s Magazine
Díaz, Junot The Pura Principle The New Yorker
Doctorow, E.L. Edgemont Drive The New Yorker
Downs, Michael History Class The Kenyon Review
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Eugenides, Jeffrey Extreme Solitude The New Yorker
Ferris, Joshua The Pilot The New Yorker
Flanagan, Erin Dog People Colorado Review
Foer, Jonathan Safran Here We Aren’t, So Quickly The New Yorker
Fountain, Ben Things You Do with Your Feet The Iowa Review
Frucht, Abby Tamarinds New Letters
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Gilb, Dagoberto Uncle Rock The New Yorker
Gillison, Samantha The Fall of the Bevelacquas of Boerum Hill Epiphany
Goldberg, Myla That’ll Be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents Please Harper’s Magazine
Goolsby, Jesse Derrin of the North Harpur Palate
Gordon, Mary Lydia’s Violin Fiction
Gordon, Peter Swaying Buildings The Antioch Review
Gough, Thomas The Evening’s Peace New England Review
Greenfeld, Karl Taro Mickey Mouse Santa Monica Review
Haigh, Jennifer Beast and Bird Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Harvor, Elisabeth After We Had Been Married for Seven Years JoylandMagazine.com
Hempel, Amy Greed Ploughshares
Heuler, Karen The Great Spin Confrontation
Hill, Ingrid The Kiss of Sitting Bull Bull Image
Holladay, Cary Two Worlds The Southern Review
Hood, Mary Witnessing The Georgia Review
Horrocks, Caitlin The Lion Gate West Branch
Hwang, Frances Blue Roses The New Yorker
I-J
Jodzio, John The Wedding Party Tampa Review
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Kohler, Sheila Musical Chairs Boulevard
Kruse, Megan Dollywood Witness
Leebron, Fred G. Out Cold Tin House
Lennon, J. Robert Hibachi Electric Literature
Li, Yiyun The Science of Flight The New Yorker
Livesey, Margot Mr. Clark's Daughter Ninth Letter
Loory, Ben The TV The New Yorker
Lordan, Beth A Useful Story New England Review
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Mason, Zachary The Duel Tin House
McGarry, Jean A Full House Boulevard
Means, David The Junction Ecotone
Means, David The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934 The New Yorker
Mengestu, Dinaw An Honest Exit The New Yorker
Millet, Lydia Snow White, Rose Red Tin House
Millhauser, Steven The White Glove Tin House
Munro, Alice Corrie The New Yorker
Nadler, Stuart Visiting The Atlantic
Null, Matthew Neill Something You Can’t Live Without Oxford American
O-P
Obreht, Tea Blue Water Djinn The New Yorker
Offill, Jenny The Tunnel Electric Literature
Offutt, Chris The Blue Zoo Granta
Packer, Z. Z. Dayward The New Yorker
Patterson, Molly Moving Fronts Salamander
Pearlman, Edith Big Sister Massachusetts Review
Percy, Benjamin The Mud Man The Southern Review
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Rash, Ron The Woman at the Pond The Southern Review
Ray, Whitney Red Bird The Iowa Review
Robinson, Roxana This Is America Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Russell, Karen The Dredgeman’s Revelation The New Yorker
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Sandor, Marjorie Wolf Agni
Sayrafiezadeh, Said Appetite The New Yorker
Schatz, Kate Folsom, Survivor JoylandMagazine.com
Schutz, Greg Joyriders Ploughshares
Sheehan, Michael Jean Takes a Moment to Respond. Conjunctions
Shepard, Jim Poland Is Watching Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Shepard, Jim The Track of the Assassins Zoetrope
Shipstead, Maggie Via Serenidad Glimmer Train
Shipstead, Maggie The Mariposa JoylandMagazine.com
Silver, Marisa The Leap Ecotone
Sirisena, Hasanthika Third-Country National Glimmer Train
Smith, R. T. Red Jar Prairie Schooner
Sneed, Christine Interview with the Second Wife New England Review
Tower, Wells The Landlord The New Yorker
Troy, Judy Cactus Glimmer Train
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Van den Berg, Laura Acrobat American Short Fiction
Vestal, Shawn Diviner American Short Fiction
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Watson, Brad Alamo Plaza Ecotone
Webb, Igor Later The Hudson Review
Wickersham, Joan The Boys’ School, or The News from Spain Agni
Wilbur, Ellen Fifteen The Yale Review
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