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The Best American Short Stories 2012
EditorTom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Short Stories
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN9780547242101 (paperback)
Preceded byThe Best American Short Stories 2011 
Followed byThe Best American Short Stories 2013 

The Best American Short Stories 2012, a volume in the Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Tom Perotta.[1]

Short Stories included

Author Story Where story previously appeared
Carol Anshaw "The Last Speaker of the Language" New Ohio Review
Taylor Antrim "Pilgrim Life" American Short Fiction
Nathan Englander "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" The New Yorker
Mary Gaitskill "The Other Place" The New Yorker
Roxane Gay "North Country" Hobart
Jennifer Haigh "Paramour" Ploughshares
Mike Meginnis "Navigators" Hobart
Steven Millhauser "Miracle Polish" The New Yorker
Alice Munro "Axis" The New Yorker
Lawrence Osborne "Volcano" Tin House
Julie Otsuka "Diem Perdidi" Granta
Edith Pearlman "Honeydew" Orion
Angela Pneuman "Occupational Hazard" Ploughshares
Eric Puchner "Beautiful Monsters" Tin House
George Saunders "Tenth of December" The New Yorker
Taiye Selasi "The Sex Lives of African Girls" Granta
Sharon Solwitz "Alive" Fifth Wednesday Journal
Kate Walbert "M&M World" The New Yorker
Jess Walter "Anything Helps" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Adam Wilson "What's Important is Feeling" The Paris Review

References

  1. ^ Pitlor, Heidi and Perotta, Tom (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2012 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2012.