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| Editor | Martha Foley |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| 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]
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]
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 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" | The 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 |
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