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The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, [1] including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman , [ 27 ] but according to reviewers the film does not depict the story well.
Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media.The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [2]
The Best American Short Stories 2021 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and two-time National Book Award winner , Jesmyn Ward .
The Best American Short Stories 2020 The Best American Short Stories 2019 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology . It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner , Anthony Doerr .
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet.He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. [e] [5] [6] Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. [7] Chekhov was a physician by profession.