n nThe literary Oscars features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories. -- Shelf Awareness for Readersn nThe 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).n