Best American Series - The Best American Short Stories, the Best American Series, the Best American Short Stories 2008 (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Best American Short Stories, the Best American Series, the Best American Short Stories 2008, the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, the Best American Short Stories 1998, the Best American Short Stories 2007, the Best American Mystery Stories 2009, the Best American Sports Writing, the Best American Short Stories 2006, the Best American Short Stories 2003, the Best American Short Stories 1996, the Best American Short Stories 1997, the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, the Best American Short Stories 2002, the Best American Short Stories 2004, the Best American Short Stories 1994, the Best American Short Stories 1993, the Best American Short Stories 2005, the Best American Short Stories 1999, the Best American Short Stories 1995, the Best American Short Stories 2000, the Best American Short Stories 2001, the Best American Short Stories 2009, the Best American Science and Nature Writing, the Best American Mystery Stories, the Best American Nonrequired Reading, the Best American Essays, the Best American Travel Writing. Excerpt: The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 1986 and is now part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin . Articles are chosen using the same procedure with other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chooses about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix. The series is edited by Robert Atwan . Guest editors since 2000 A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Best American Mystery Stories is a yearly anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies. It was started in 1997 as part of The Best American...