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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...