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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 | 978-9997371379 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1961 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1963 |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frieda Arkin | "The Light of the Sea" | The Colorado Quarterly |
| Wayson S. Choy | "The Sound of Waves" | PRISM international |
| Edward Dahlberg | "Because I Was Flesh" | Prairie Schooner |
| Borden Deal | "Antaeus" | Southwest Review |
| Stanley Elkin | "Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers" | Perspective |
| Seymour Epstein | "Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed" | Redbook |
| George Garrett | "The Old Army Game" | The Sewanee Review |
| William H. Gass | "The Pedersen Kid" | MSS |
| Sister Mary Gilbert | "The Model Chapel" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Donald Hall | "A Day on Ragged" | The New Yorker |
| Henia Karmel-Wolfe | "The Last Day" | The Reporter |
| Mary Lavin | "In the Middle of the Fields" | The New Yorker |
| Jack Thomas Leahy | "Hanging Hair" | Kenyon Review |
| Ben Maddow | "To Hell the Rabbis" | Kenyon Review |
| Miriam McKenzie | "Déjà Vu" | New World Writing |
| Arthur Miller | "The Prophecy" | Esquire |
| E. Lucas Myers | "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor" | The Sewanee Review |
| Flannery O'Connor | "Everything That Rises Must Converge" | New World Writing |
| Thalia Selz | "The Education of a Queen" | Partisan Review |
| Irwin Shaw | "Love on a Dark Street" | Esquire |
| John Updike | "Pigeon Feathers" | The New Yorker |
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