The literary Oscars features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories. Shelf Awareness for ReadersThe Best American Short Stories 2014 will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, heralded by Time magazine as a new classic of American fiction. Egan possesses a satirists eye and a romance novelists heart (New York Times Book Review).