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Editor | Martha Foley |
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Language | English |
Series | The Best American Short Stories |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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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 |
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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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