| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0395109403 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1969 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1971 |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Cady | "With No Breeze" | The Carolina Quarterly |
| Eldridge Cleaver | "The Flashlight" | Playboy |
| Robert Coover | "The Magic Poker" | Esquire |
| Olivia Davis | "The Other Child" | Prairie Schooner |
| Andre Dubus | "If They Knew Yvonne" | North American Review |
| John Bart Gerald | "Blood Letting" | The Atlantic |
| Alfred Gillespie | "Tonight at Nine Thirty-six" | Redbook |
| Ella Leffland | "The Forest" | Epoch |
| Jack Matthews | "Another Story" | The Sewanee Review |
| William Maxwell | "The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel" | The New Yorker |
| Wright Morris | "Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life all over again" | TriQuarterly |
| Paul Olsen | "The Flag Is Down" | The Southern Review |
| Cynthia Ozick | "Yiddish in America" | Commentary |
| Jules Siegel | "In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu" | Esquire |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | "The Key" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Stone | "Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta" | New American Review |
| Peter Taylor | "Daphne's Lover" | The Sewanee Review |
| Rosine Weisbrod | "The Ninth Cold Day" | Virginia Quarterly Review |