The Best American Short Stories 1953

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The Best American Short Stories 1953
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Editor Martha Foley
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint
ISBN 978-9997371560
Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 1952  
Followed by The Best American Short Stories 1954  

The Best American Short Stories 1953 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [1]

Contents

Background

The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction" [2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature. [3] [4] [5]

In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines. [6] The Los Angeles Times , reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms. [7]

Short stories included

AuthorStorySource
James Agee "A Mother's Tale" Harper's Bazaar
James Ballard"A Mountain Summer" The Hopkins Review
Stephen Becker "The Town Mouse" Harper's Magazine
Joseph Carroll"At Mrs. Farrelly's" The Atlantic Monthly
R.V. Cassill "The Life of the Sleeping Beauty"Accent
Robert M. Coates "The Need" The New Yorker
Mary Deasy "Morning Sun" The Virginia Quarterly Review
Harris Downey "Crispin's Way"Epoch
Osborn Duke "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" New World Writing
George P. Elliot "FAQ'" The Hudson Review
Wingate Froscher "A Death in the Family"Epoch
Vahan Krikorian Gregory "Athens, Greece, 1942" The Armenian Review
James B. Hall "A Spot in History"Epoch
Charles Tenney Jackson "The Buffalo Wallow" Atlantic Monthly
Roberts Jackson"Fly Away Home"Accent
Madison P. Jones, Jr. "Dog Days" Perspective
Willard Marsh "Beachhead in Bohemia" Southwest Review
Elizabeth Marshall"The Hill People" Mademoiselle
Felix Noland "The Whipping" McCall's
Constance Pendergast "The Picnic" Perspective
Ken Purdy "Change of Plan" The Atlantic Monthly
Clay Putman "Our Vegetable Love"Furioso
Roger Shattuck "Workout On The River" Harper's Magazine
Henry Schultz "Oreste" New Mexico Quarterly
Stanley Sultan "The Fugue Of The Fig Tree" The Kenyon Review
Mark Van Doren "Still, Still So" Park East, the Magazine of New York
Donald Wesley "A Week of Roses" The Hopkins Review
Christine Weston "The Forest of the Night" The New Yorker
Tennessee Williams "Three Players of A Summer Game" The New Yorker
Simon Wincelberg "The Conqueror" Harper's Bazaar

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1953). The Best American Short Stories 1953. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-9997371560.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. ↑ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
  3. ↑ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly , 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
  4. ↑ Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
  5. ↑ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  6. ↑ "'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18.
  7. ↑ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
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