{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2026-9853","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2026\u003c\/i\u003e INCLUDES: AIMEE BENDER - NATHAN ENGLANDER - LOUISE ERDRICH - CALVIN GIMPELEVICH - SIGRID NUNEZ - GEORGE SAUNDERS - AKHIL SHARMA - VU TRAN - PAUL YOON - AND OTHERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year's volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls \"so good that they may be bad for you\" a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the present; a young lesbian attempts to launch her sexuality with comically mixed results. In these stories and many more in this year's volume, it's easy to get lost in the yearning of characters who feel so heartbreakingly true and whose lives resonate with the weight of inevitability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/b\u003e's novel \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and many other awards. His other books include a sequel, \u003ci\u003eThe Committed\u003c\/i\u003e, and the bestselling short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Refugees. \u003c\/i\u003eOther works are \u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the children's books \u003ci\u003eChicken of the Sea \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e Simone\u003c\/i\u003e. His last book was \u003ci\u003eTo Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicole A. Lamy \u003c\/strong\u003ewas the books editor of the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe, \u003c\/em\u003e where she expanded books coverage, including a reader advice column called \u003cem\u003eMatch Book\u003c\/em\u003e, which she subsequently wrote for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to book reviews and features she has written about food, photography, and parenting among other topics for the \u003cem\u003eGlobe\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicole A Lamy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67843499360541,"sku":"9780063399853","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780063399853.jpg?v=1792618495","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2026-9853","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}