The series is helmed by Bill Henderson, and each year a set of guest editors and contributing editors choose the Pushcart winners. With this latest addition to a longstanding series publishing in November 2022, The Pushcart Prize anthology compiles about 60 stories, poems, and essays nominated by dozens of literary magazines. Other Best American series that have since been retired include The Best American Recipes, The Best American Spiritual Writing, The Best American Comics, and more. Current titles include The Best American Mystery and Suspense, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the most recently-added anthology: The Best American Food Writing. In addition to the mainstays of The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays, other genres have been added and/or retired. A Series of Wide-Ranging and Changing Genres These guest editors are usually famous writers in the category in which they’re editing. Now, each year, a guest editor is chosen to pick the table of contents for each Best American anthology. BASS began in 1915, and it wasn’t until 1986 that other genres were added, and then it became a series. The oldest of the series is The Best American Short Stories.
Mariner Books publishes the series, which is an imprint of HarperCollins (it used to be an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt until HarperCollins bought it in 2021). The Best American series includes a wide variety of anthologies.
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