1. Lauren Groff is the author of five novels: the instant New York Times bestseller The
Vaster Wilds, and two National Book Award Finalists, Matrix and Fates and Furies; as
well as Aradia and The Monsters of Templeton. Her story collections include Florida,
winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Delicate
Edible Birds. She has twice been a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, as well as for the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the Orange Prize for
New Writers. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, a Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin, and was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young
American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.
2. Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the
series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the
novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”
