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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 | 978-0395076927 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1967 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1969 |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 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 |
|---|---|---|
| James Baldwin | "Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone" | McCall’s Magazine |
| John Deck | "Greased Samba" | The Atlantic |
| James T. Farrell | "An American Student in Paris" | The Southern Review |
| George H. Freitag | "An Old Man and His Hat" | Harper's Magazine |
| Herb Gardner | "Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| William H. Gass | "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" | The New American Review |
| Mary Ladd Gavell | "The Rotifer" | Psychiatry |
| Donald Gropman | "The Heart of This or That Man" | The Literary Review |
| William Harrison | "The Snooker Shark" | The Saturday Evening Post |
| Judith Higgins | "The Only People" | The Atlantic |
| Helen Hudson | "The Tenant" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Leo E. Litwak | "In Shock" | Partisan Review |
| Richard McKenna | "The Sons of Martha" | Harper's Magazine |
| William Moseley | "The Preacher and Margery Scott" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Joanna Ostrow | "Celtic Twilight" | The New Yorker |
| Nancy Huddleston Packer | "Early Morning, Lonely Ride" | The Southwest Review |
| John Phillips | "Bleat Blodgette" | The Paris Review |
| Lawrence P. Springarn | "The Ambassador" | The Southern Humanities Review |
| Winston Weathers | "The Games That We Played" | The Georgia Review |
| Janet Bruce Winn | "Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl" | Evidence |