<P><B>“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” — <I>Shelf Awareness for Readers</I></B></P> <p><I>The Best American Short Stories 2014</I> 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 <I>A Visit from the Goon Squad,</I> heralded by <I>Time</I> magazine as “a new classic of American fiction.” Egan “possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart” (<I>New York Times Book Review</I>).