The Best American Short Stories 2005 by Michael Chabon

The Best American Short Stories 2005 by Michael Chabon

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The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

The Best American Short Stories 2005 includes

Dennis Lehane * Tom Perrotta * Alice Munro * Edward P. Jones * Joy Williams * Joyce Carol Oates * Thomas McGuane * Kelly Link * Charles D'Ambrosio * Cory Doctorow * George Saunders * and others

Michael Chabon, guest editor, is the best-selling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, A Model World, and, most recently, The Final Solution. His novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

Since 1990, Katrina Kenison has served as the annual editor of The Best American Short Stories. She edited The Best American Short Tales of the Century, a New York Times bestseller, alongside John Updike. She is the coeditor of Mothers: Twenty Tales of Modern Motherhood and has written essays for Redbook and Ladies' Home Journal, among other publications. She and her husband, as well as their two sons, live just outside of Boston.