The Best American Short Stories 2024

<p><strong>A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of <em>Matrix</em> and <em>The Vaster Wilds</em>, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.</strong></p><p>“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. <em>The Best American Short Stories 2024</em> 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.”</p><p><em>The Best American Short Stories 2024</em> includes JAMEL BRINKLEY • ALEXANDRA CHANG • LAURIE COLWIN • MOLLY DEKTAR •  TAISIA KITAISKAIA • DANIEL MASON • JIM SHEPARD • AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI • PAUL YOON • and others</p>