{"product_id":"coolest-american-stories-2022","title":"Coolest American Stories 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerica's most talented storytellers share their most courageous, compelling, unputdownable work in a collection made for story lovers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraised early on by \u003cem\u003eBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk \u003c\/em\u003eauthor Ben Fountain and \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Blood\u003c\/em\u003e author Laura McHugh, \u003cem\u003eCOOLEST AMERICAN STORIES\u003c\/em\u003e is a new annual short story anthology whose guiding philosophy is that a collection of \u003cem\u003einteresting\u003c\/em\u003e \"full meal\" short stories could, as one @JustCoolStories Twitter follower put it, \"make America cool again.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToward this end, \u003cem\u003eCOOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022\u003c\/em\u003e features a previously unpublished story by the multi-major-book-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBlacktop Wasteland\u003c\/em\u003e S. A. Cosby; the timeless, previously unpublished short story that led Tina Brown to sign Frances Park's \u003cem\u003eWhen My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon\u003c\/em\u003e; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin's heartfelt rendering of married life that apparently was too startling for the editors of several university-affiliated literary magazines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd since interesting storytelling—rather than a list of publishing credits—matters most to story-hungry readers, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2022 also includes a page-turner about dating in Hollywood written by MFA student Megan Ritchie; Brooklyn native D.Z. Stone's very first published fiction, a hilarious love story that celebrates the power of women; a heartbreaking account of adult siblinghood authored by David Ebenbach—among others in this treasure trove of unputdownable, sharply written stories loaded with twists and turns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCOOLEST AMERICAN STORIES founding editor\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Wish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, who has seen more than 125 of his short stories published in print venues such as\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePushcart Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e anthology, now spends his time editing the short stories and novels of others and writing fiction of his own. Editor\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Coffey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is VP of Interior Design at Random House, and, besides editing and designing COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES, is working on her first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Coolest American Stories 2022 is a helluva lot of fun. These stories bump and brim with rambunctious energy and show that the American short story is alive and well. 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