#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his&;stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors&; (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.
&;As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,&; writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year&;s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America&;s rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client relationship. This astonishing collection brings together the realistic and dystopic, humor and terror. For Doerr, &;with every new artist, we simultaneously refine and expand our understanding of what the form can be.&;
 
The Best American Short Stories 2019 includes Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamel Brinkley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ursula K. Le Guin, Manuel Muñoz, Sigrid Nunez, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Jim Shepherd, Weike Wang, and others.