"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- "Shelf Awareness for Readers""The 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").
