About this ebook
The third volume of the annual anthology that’s been praised nationwide by readers and numerous award-winning and bestselling authors, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 exudes its editors’ philosophy that a collection of widely appealing short stories can make for common ground that could unite rather than divide Americans.
Toward this end, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 features a funny yet heart-stopping story by Agatha, Macavity, and Anthony Award winning Tara Laskowski, author of the heralded One Night Gone; a suspenseful and thought-provoking story about trust by widely acclaimed playwright D.W. Gregory; and rising star Matthew Goldberg's hilarious tale about family love in a future dominated by robotics and AI.
And since interesting storytelling―rather than a bunch of publishing credits―matters most to story-hungry readers, COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES 2024 also includes a laugh out loud page-turner about a young woman’s search for love in Paris by brand new author Hannah Mumm; a shocking dystopian tale about sacrifices necessary for survival by up-and-coming author T. N. Eyer; and a haunting rural mystery by novelist Dennis McFadden―among others in this treasure trove of unputdownable, sharply written, sometimes comic, sometimes frightening, always suspenseful stories loaded with twists and turns.
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About the author
Mark Wish has seen more than 125 of his short stories published in print venues such as The Best American Short Stories, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, The Sun, The Missouri Review, Paris Transcontinental, and Fiction International. His short stories have also won a Tobias Wolff Award, a Kay Cattarulla Award, an Isherwood Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Mark served as the fiction editor of California Quarterly, was the founding fiction editor of New York Stories and a contributing editor for Pushcart, and has long been known as the freelance editor who has revised the fiction of many once-struggling writers, leading to its publication in dozens of respected venues, including The Atlantic, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His third novel, Watch Me Go, was praised by Daniel Woodrell and Rebecca Makkai and published by Putnam. His fourth novel, Necessary Deeds (Regal House, January 2024), has received early praise from Lou Berney, Laura McHugh, Daniel Torday, E. A. Aymar, Tim Johnston, Katherine Vaz, Leland Cheuk, Tim Page, and Tish Cohen.
Elizabeth Coffey is an award-winning design director at Random House, where she has designed book interiors for Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, Michelle Obama’s Becoming and The Light We Carry, Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, and numerous other bestselling titles. She dabbled in poetry in the nineties and published in several small magazines. Her novel Eighteen Floors was a finalist for a Claymore Award. Her pen name is a tribute to her beloved great-grandmother Johanna Coffey. Elizabeth has been Mark’s go-to editor for virtually all of his published short stories and novels.
