Coolest American Stories 2022
- ISBN-10
- 1737573903
- ISBN-13
- 9781737573906
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-01-11
- Authors
- Mark Wish, Elizabeth Coffey
Description
COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is an annual anthology of the most interesting, compelling, widely appealing short stories editors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey can find in a given year. Mark is the widely published Pushcart winner whose work was chosen by Salman Rushdie to appear in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2008; Elizabeth is a VP at Random House who designed both Michelle Obama's and Barack Obama's recent books. Their publicly stated pledge is to showcase the most well-written, page-turning, full-length short stories that wow readers with surprising plot twists as well as engaging characterization. Endorsed early on by THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES Series Editor Heidi Pitlor, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES is different from the established best-of fiction anthologies because it does not require stories to be previously published--therefore allowing it to offer readers otherwise overlooked short stories Heidi Pitlor has called "gems." Regarding its inaugural volume (which is due out January 11, 2022, and features a previously unpublished short story by LOS ANGELES TIMES Book Prize winner and Thriller Award winner S. A. Cosby), BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK author Ben Fountain said, "These stories bump and brim with rambunctious energy and show that the American short story is alive and well. Many thanks to Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey for this breath--or let's call it a gale--of fresh literary air." THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD author Laura McHugh called this inaugural volume "extraordinarily rich story storytelling from fresh, vibrant voices," and added, "COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES promises to be an annual force."
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