The Best American Short Stories 1962

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The Best American Short Stories 1962
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Editor Martha Foley
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint
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]

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
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

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Martha, ed. (June 1, 1962). The Best American Short Stories 1962. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-9997371379.{{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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