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The Best American Short Stories 2022
- GenresShort Stories
1 pages, Audio CD
Published November 1, 2022
About the author
Andrew Sean Greer
30 books3,482 followersAndrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.
He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.
The child of two scientists, Greer studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation, where his unrehearsed remarks, critiquing Brown's admissions policies, caused a semi-riot. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he received his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Montana, from where he soon moved to Seattle and two years later to San Francisco where he now lives. He is currently a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center. He is an identical twin.
While in San Francisco, he began to publish in magazines before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was for Me. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and other national publications, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People, and The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published in 2001.
He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.
The child of two scientists, Greer studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation, where his unrehearsed remarks, critiquing Brown's admissions policies, caused a semi-riot. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he received his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Montana, from where he soon moved to Seattle and two years later to San Francisco where he now lives. He is currently a fellow at the New York Public Library Cullman Center. He is an identical twin.
While in San Francisco, he began to publish in magazines before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was for Me. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker and other national publications, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People, and The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published in 2001.
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May 17, 2023
As always, a mixed bag. I have the entire "Best Short Stories of..." going all the way back to 1970! And there are always a few stories that get a star or two, a few new authors for me to look up and research (and read all their work) and a few stories that make me wonder, "How did THAT story get selected for the Best of...collection?"
Lauren Groff's "The Wind" was the clear standout and I have already requested a book by her from my local library. Just stunning. Alice McDermott, always a favorite, scores with "Post." And I adored the whimsical "Beyoglu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra" which managed to be both silly ("Today, I am the trash" made me laugh) and frightening in this era of Mothers for Liberty censorship. I'm looking forward to Kenan Orhan's upcoming story collection. All in all, mostly well chosen with the interesting stories outnumbering the lesser ones.
Lauren Groff's "The Wind" was the clear standout and I have already requested a book by her from my local library. Just stunning. Alice McDermott, always a favorite, scores with "Post." And I adored the whimsical "Beyoglu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra" which managed to be both silly ("Today, I am the trash" made me laugh) and frightening in this era of Mothers for Liberty censorship. I'm looking forward to Kenan Orhan's upcoming story collection. All in all, mostly well chosen with the interesting stories outnumbering the lesser ones.
April 28, 2026
The author of the novel, Less, editor Greer has selected twenty engaging and sometimes unique and quirky stories. One masterful writer employs a granddaughter who wasn’t even around when the action took place to the narrate one story. There are several COVID stories that reveal to us what we already know but in ways that are different, too; otherwise, why bother? Greer, who is gay, in the final narrative, includes one story with a gay couple who are attempting, while fostering a cat, to foster their own relationship into something deeper.
January 22, 2024
My favorites:
A ravishing sun by Leslie blanco (new letters)
The little widow from the capital by Yohanca Delgado (paris review)
The hollow by Greg Jackson (New Yorker)
Bears among the living by Kevin Moffett (mcsweeneys)
The ghost birds by Karen Russell (New Yorker)
Elephant seals by Meghan Louise Wagner (Agni)
A ravishing sun by Leslie blanco (new letters)
The little widow from the capital by Yohanca Delgado (paris review)
The hollow by Greg Jackson (New Yorker)
Bears among the living by Kevin Moffett (mcsweeneys)
The ghost birds by Karen Russell (New Yorker)
Elephant seals by Meghan Louise Wagner (Agni)
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