"e;The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories."e; - 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 "e;a new classic of American fiction."e; Egan "e;possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart"e; (New York Times Book Review).