Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best American Short Stories 1999 | 1999 | Stephen Dobyns | Buy |
The Best American Short Stories 1999 represents Stephen Dobyns’s work as a literary curator. The annual anthology, one of the most prestigious in American publishing, invites a different guest editor each year to select the best short fiction from the country’s magazines and journals.
Dobyns’s selection for the 1999 edition reflects his own literary sensibility, favoring stories with strong narrative drive and psychological complexity. His involvement in the anthology speaks to his standing as a figure in American letters who crosses the boundaries between poetry, genre fiction, and literary fiction.