The Best American Short Stories 1959

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The Best American Short Stories 1959
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Editor Martha Foley
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint
ISBN 978-9997371256
Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 1958  
Followed by The Best American Short Stories 1960  

The Best American Short Stories 1959 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
John Barry"Jawaharlal and the Three Cadavers" The Western Review
Sallie Bingham "Winter Term" Mademoiselle
Frank Butler "Amid A Place of Stone" The Hudson Review
John Cheever "The Bella Lingua" The New Yorker
Robert M. Coates "Getaway" The New Yorker
Charles G. Finney "The Iowan’s Curse" Harper's Magazine
William H. Gass "Mrs. Mean"Accent
"Hugh Geeslin, Jr. " "A Day In The Life of the Boss" The Georgia Review
Herbert Gold "Love and Like" The Hudson Review
Frank Holwerda "In A Tropical Minor Key"Accent
Bernard Malamud "The Last Mohican" Partisan Review
Howard Nemerov "A Secret Society" The Virginia Quarterly Review
Leo Rosten "The Guy in Ward 4" Harper's Magazine
Philip Roth "The Conversion of the Jews" The Paris Review
Anne Sayre "A Birthday Present" The Colorado Quarterly
Harvey Swados "The Man in the Toolhouse" The Western Review
Peter Taylor "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" The Kenyon Review
John Updike "A Gift From the City" The New Yorker
Thomas Williams "The Buck in Trotevale’s" Esquire
Ethel Wilson "The Window" The Tamarack Review

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Martha, ed. (June 1, 1959). The Best American Short Stories 1959. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-9997371256.{{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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