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Heidi Pitlor has been the series editor of The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novel, The Birthdays. Her second novel, The Daylight Marriage, is forthcoming in May, 2015.

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	The Daylight Marriage 2.96 avg rating — 4,056 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Tom Perrotta (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 2,433 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2007 by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 2,320 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 2,044 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Caitlin Horrocks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 2,041 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2014 by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda Urban (Afterword) 3.79 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impersonation 3.35 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birthdays 2.84 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2022 (The Best American Series) by Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author), Andrew Sean Greer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Short Stories 2008 by Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Salman Rushdie (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, ‘Maybe he owed somebody money.’” “Yes,”
― Heidi Pitlor, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

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“The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.”
― Heidi Pitlor, The Daylight Marriage

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“Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?”
― Heidi Pitlor, Impersonation

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