| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9780395194157 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1973 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1975 |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Agnes Boyer | "The Deserter" | PRISM international |
| 1974 | Jerry Bumpus | "Beginnings" | TriQuarterly |
| 1974 | Eleanor Clark | "A Summer in Puerto Rico" | The Southern Review |
| 1974 | Pat M. Esslinger-Carr | "The Party" | The Southern Review |
| 1974 | Lewis B. Horne | "Mansion, Magic, and Miracle" | The Colorado Quarterly |
| 1974 | Rose Graubart Ignatow | "Down the American River" | Shenandoah |
| 1974 | Maxine Kumin | "Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street" | The Southern Review |
| 1974 | Mary Lavin | "Tom" | The New Yorker |
| 1974 | John L'Heureux | "A Family Affair" | Atlantic Monthly |
| 1974 | Phillip Lopate | "The Chamber Music Evening" | Paris Review |
| 1974 | Stephen Minot | "The Tide and Isaac Bates" | Quarterly Review of Literature |
| 1974 | Beverly Mitchell | "Letter from Sakaye" | The Fiddlehead |
| 1974 | Michael Rothschild | "Dog in the Manger" | Antaeus |
| 1974 | Peter L. Sandberg | "Calloway's Climb" | Playboy |
| 1974 | William Saroyan | "Isn't Today the Day?" | Harper's Magazine |
| 1974 | Phillip H. Schneider | "The Gray" | Kansas Quarterly |
| 1974 | Barry Targan | "Old Vemish" | Salmagundi |
| 1974 | John Updike | "Son" | The New Yorker |
| 1974 | Arturo Vivante | "Honeymoon" | The New Yorker |
| 1974 | Alice Walker | "The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff" | Ms. |