In their new anthology 20 OVER 60 (Regal House; October 6, 2026), editors Beth Weinhouse and David Galef—also co-editors of the anthology 20 OVER 40—present a portrait of later life that is consistently overlooked in a culture obsessed with youth. The twenty short stories—including ones by Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux, and Jane Gardam—are vibrant, moving, and often hilarious, capturing the texture of life after sixty in all its complexity.
Among the characters readers will meet: a retired couple whose hobby is stealing pepper mills from high-end restaurants, a woman juggling her husband and ex-husband staying in the same hospital, a futuristic nursing home whose designers become its unhappy residents, an older woman trying her hand at online dating, and a grandfather helping his granddaughter scatter her mother’s ashes. These smart and poignant stories make the case that the years after sixty are as strange, surprising, and vivid as the decades that came before—and that readers living it deserve to see themselves on the page.
An anthology that celebrates 20 people over 60.
