The Best American Short Stories 1964

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The Best American Short Stories 1964
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Editor Martha Foley
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint
ISBN 978-0395076880
Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 1963  
Followed by The Best American Short Stories 1965  

The Best American Short Stories 1964 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 Broomstick on the Porch" The Kenyon Review
Richard G. Brown "Mr. Iscariot" The Literary Review
John Stewart Carter "To a Tenor Dying Old" The Kenyon Review
Daniel Curley "A Story of Love, Etc."Epoch
May Dikeman "The Woman Across the Street" The Atlantic Monthly
William Eastlake "A Long Day's Dying" Virginia Quarterly Review
William Goyen "Figure Over the Town" The Saturday Evening Post
Paul Horgan "Black Snowflakes" The Saturday Evening Post
William Humphrey "The Pump" Esquire
Shirley Jackson "Birthday Party" Vogue
Edith Konecky "The Power" The Massachusetts Review
Kimon Lolos "Mule No. 095" The Carleton Miscellany
Bernard Malamud "The German Refugee" The Saturday Evening Post
Carson McCullers "Sucker" The Saturday Evening Post
Virginia Moriconi "Simple Arithmetic" The Transatlantic Review
Joyce Carol Oates "Upon the Sweeping Flood" Southwest Review
Reynolds Price "The Names and Faces of Heroes" Shenandoah
Vera Randal "Waiting for Jim" The Colorado Quarterly
Harvey Swados "A Story for Teddy" The Saturday Evening Post
Robert Penn Warren "Have You Seen Sukie?" The Virginia Quarterly Review

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1964). The Best American Short Stories 1964. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0395076880.{{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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