**"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the
best of the best in American short stories." --**Shelf Awareness for
Readers
The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize
winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic
voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and
wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the
collection.