Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now The Best American Short Storie[...]

As mothers, we want so much for our children...and we ask so much of ourselves. Yet when we rush headlong through our days, we are left scattered and exhausted, unable to luxuriate in the quiet gifts of everyday life. We end up shortchanging the ones we love, depriving our families and ourselves of [...]

The arc of MAGICAL JOURNEY will span a year in which, like thousands of other women her age, Katrina will confront the reality of a new life without children at home, and begin to shape the second half of her own adulthood. It will chronicle twelve months of both great transformation and subtle shif[...]