2022 short story collection
The Best American Short Stories 2022 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by series editor Heidi Pitlor and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer.[1][2] The collection of 20 short stories selected from leading magazines in the U.S. was published in November 2022 with a print run of 75,000.[3] It was also issued as an audiobook spoken by five voice actors.[4][5]
Short stories included
| Author |
Title |
First published
|
| Leslie Blanco |
"A Ravishing Sun" |
New Letters (Vol.87, No. 1-2)
|
| Yohanca Delgado |
"The Little Widow from the Capital" |
The Paris Review (No. 236)
|
| Kim Coleman Foote |
"Man of the House" |
Ecotone (Vol.16, no. 2)
|
| Lauren Groff |
"The Wind" |
The New Yorker (January 25, 2021)
|
| Greg Jackson |
"The Hollow" |
The New Yorker (November 22, 2021)
|
| Gish Jen |
"Detective Dog" |
The New Yorker (November 15, 2021)
|
| Claire Luchette |
"Sugar Island" |
Ploughshares (Spring 2021)
|
| Elizabeth McCracken |
"The Souvenir Museum" |
Harper's Magazine (January 2021)
|
| Alice McDermott |
"Post" |
One Story (Issue 280, August 26, 2021)
|
| Kevin Moffett |
"Bears Among the Living" |
McSweeney's (Issue 63)
|
| Gina Ochsner |
"Soon the Light" |
Ploughshares (Winter 2020–21)
|
| Okwiri Oduor |
"Mbiu Dash" |
Granta (Issue 156, July 29, 2021)
|
| Alix Ohlin |
"The Meeting" |
Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2021)
|
| Kenan Orhan |
"The Beyoğlu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra" |
The Paris Review (Issue 237, Summer 2021)
|
| Karen Russell |
"The Ghost Birds" |
The New Yorker (October 4, 2021)
|
| Sanjena Sathian |
"Mr. Ashok's Monument" |
Conjunctions (Issue 76, Spring 2021)
|
| Erin Somers |
"Ten Year Affair" |
Joyland (February 1, 2021)
|
| Héctor Tobar |
"The Sin of Others" |
Zyzzyva (Issue 120)
|
| Louise Wagner |
"Elephant Seals" |
AGNI (Issue 93, April 15, 2021)
|
| Bryan Washington |
"Foster" |
The New Yorker (June 7, 2021)
|
References