The Best American Short Stories 2022

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By Andrew Sean Greer & Heidi Pitlor

Publisher Description

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.

Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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The Best American Short Stories 2022 Reviews

3.0

ingwon

Created 4 months ago

Andrew Troth

Created 8 months ago

Sr Álida

Created about 1 year ago

Chris Outzen

Created over 1 year ago

““The Best American Short Stories 2022” edited by Andrew Sean Greer The “Best American” series is always a bit hit or miss for me: sometimes I adore a year’s anthology and other years it just feels “meh.” It all depends on the sensibilities of that year’s editor. I started my read of the 2022 selection feeling meh about the first 100 pages. I spent the remaining 200 adoring it, and even reconsidering how I felt about the first 100 when I looked back on them. Greer has collected a beautiful “best of” anthology here with a wide range of styles and narratives. And I love the range of authors, featuring both well-known veterans, such as Karen Russell and Lauren Groff, and authors I have never heard of but will be watching for again, such as Yohanca Delgado and Kenan Orhan. There were, as always with these anthologies, a few duds for me but not to the degree there usually is. No story was unenjoyable; the worst it got was “this is mildly interesting” as opposed to “can’t stop reading.” I added sticky notes to at least 60% of this anthology, marking those that I want to return to for various reasons, but picking five favorites I have to give it to “A Little Widow from the Capital” by Yohanca Delgado, “Foster” by Bryan Washington, “Ghost Birds” by Karen Russell, “The Sins of Others” by Hector Tobar, and the thoughtful and inventive “The Beyoglu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra” by Kenan Orhan. To me it’s always hard to give a five star review to an anthology like this, because it is so many different styles and types of stories; no anthology can be a home run for every reader at all times. But realistically, this is a solid 4.5 stars, about as close to a full five as I could hope for with an edited anthology. Definitely the best of the “Best of” series that I’ve read in a long time.”

clare.burke

Created over 1 year ago

“Some of these I LOVED. So brilliant so good. Others just fell a little short for me. There wasn’t any I necessarily didn’t like, they just didn’t work for me. A Ravishing Sun: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Little Widow from the Capital ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Man of the House ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Wind ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Hollow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Detective Dog ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sugar Land⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Souvenir Museum ⭐️⭐️ Post ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bears Among the Living ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Soon the Light ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mbiu Dash ⭐️⭐️ The Meeting ⭐️⭐️ The Beyoğlu Municipality Waste Management ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Ghost Birds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mr. Ashok’s Monument ⭐️ Ten Year Affair ⭐️⭐️ The Sins of Others ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Elephant Seals ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️”

About Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was a Today book club selection and received a California Book Award. He lives in San Francisco.

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Heidi Pitlor

Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.