When sickly Bostonian Edward J. O’Brien put together the first “Best American Short Stories” anthology in 1915, short stories were considered junky pop culture. He was hoping that his project would ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

Zach Williams started his career as a high-school and middle-school English teacher. But when he became a new parent, all the anxieties and joys of having a kid renewed his urgency to do something ...

For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...