Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and
Late one October night in 2010, three teenage boys from the tiny Pacific island of Atafu broke their culture's cardinal rule: they set out for the open sea without a master fisherman. Drunk on vodka and hungry for adventure, they gathered last-minute prov
