abstract:The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature.
" Interest in Ms. Selasi began building when an earlier short story, "The Sex Life of African Girls, " was published in Granta in 2011 and later included in "The BestAmericanShortStories 2012.