''The Best American Short Stories 2020'' is a volume in the annual

Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of '' The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in co ...

anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor

Curtis Sittenfeld Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep sch ...

.Pitlor, Heidi and Sittenfeld, Curtis (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 2020'' Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2020.

Short stories included

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'' (September 3, 2019) , - , T. C. Boyle , , "The Apartment" , , ''

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'' (Nr. 56, 2019) , - , Jason Brown , , "A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed" , , ''

The Sewanee Review ''The Sewanee Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1892. It is the oldest continuously published quarterly in the United States. It publishes original fiction and poetry, essays, reviews, and literary criticism. History ''T ...

'' (December 2019) , - , Michael Byers , , "Sibling Rivalry" , , ''

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'' (issue 40, 2019) , - , Emma Cline , , "The Nanny" , , ''

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'' (no.231) , - , Marion Crotty , , "Hallowween" , , '' Crazyhorse'' (no. 96, 2019) , - , Carolyn Ferrell , , "Something Street" , , ''

Story Story or stories may refer to: Common uses * Story, a narrative (an account of imaginary or real people and events) ** Short story, a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting * Story (American English), or storey (British ...

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Mary Gaitskill Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and ...

, , "This is Pleasure" , , ''The New Yorker'' (July 8, 2019) , - , Meng Jin , , "In the Event" , , ''

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'' (Issue 159, Fall 2019) , - , Andrea Lee , , "The Children" , , ''

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'' (June 10 & 17, 2019) , - , Sarah Thankam Mathews , , "Rubberdust" , , '' Kenyon Review Online'' (Jan-Feb 2019) , - ,

Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. Life and career McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High S ...

, , "It's Not You" , , '' Zoetrope: All-Story'' {Vol. 23, no. 3, 2019) , - , Scott Nadelson , , "Liberté" , , '' Chicago Quarterly Review'' (no. 29, Fall 2019) , - , Leigh Newman , , "Howl Palace" , , ''The Paris Review'' (no. 230, 2019) , - , Jane Pek , , "The Nine-Tailed Fox Explains" , , ''

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'' (Vol. XXXII, no. 1, 2019)> , - , Alejandro Puyana , , "The Hands of Dirty Children" , , ''

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'' (Vol. 22, no. 68) , - , Anna Reeser , , "Octopus VII" , , ''The Threepenny Review'' (Issue 25, 2019) , - , William Pei Shih , , "Enlightenment" , , ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion" ...

'' (Vol 95/2, 2019) , - , Kevin Wilson , , "Kennedy" , , '' Subtropics'' (issue 27, 2019) , - ,

Tiphanie Yanique Tiphanie Yanique (born September 20, 1978) from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is a Caribbean American fiction writer, poet and essayist who lives in New York. In 2010 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 Under 35" honoree. She also t ...

, , "The Special World" , , ''

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'' (Winter 2019)

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