''The Best American Short Stories 2019'' is a volume in the annual ''

The Best American Short Stories ''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, including works by some of the ...

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series. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and

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winner

Anthony Doerr Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel '' All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Doerr grew up in Cleveland ...

.Pitlor, Heidi and Doerr, Anthony (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 2019'' Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2019.

Short stories included

Reception

In a review of ''The Best American Short Stories 2019'' in the ''New York Journal of Books'', Anjanette Delgado stated that the collection's stories are "unabashedly political, aware of their context, of the times we live, and understand their role in this particular time and age." She wrote that over the years critics have commented on each guest editor in the series, and their sometimes "controversial choices", but in this selection Delgado said "the quality of the writing is never in dispute." Writing in '' AudioFile'' magazine, Leslie B. Fine remarked that the stories in this collection "provides glimpses of worlds, minds, and dreams that are tragic, wistful, disturbing, and thought-provoking." She said that the authors exploit the short form to the fullest, and Fine called their characters "outstanding" in the way they bring each story to life. ''

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'' described the book as " fine celebration of the many guises a short story can take while still doing its essential work". It called Adjei-Brenyah's story "The Era" the highlight of the collection.

References

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