The Best American Short Stories 1988

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The Best American Short Stories 1988
Editor Shannon Ravenel and Mark Helprin
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Published1988
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN 0395442575
Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 1987  
Followed by The Best American Short Stories 1989  

The Best American Short Stories 1988, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Shannon Ravenel and by guest editor Mark Helprin. [1] In announcing the publication of this annual edition, Publishers Weekly noted that it is an "at times inspired anthology which draws from small and big-gun literary magazines in equal measures [and] is heralded by a sonorous, sagacious introduction..." [2] while the reviewer at Kirkus Reviews described Mark Helprin's introduction as a "John-Gardneresque screed." [3]

Contents

Short stories included

AuthorStorySource
Rick Bass "Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses" Carolina Quarterly
Richard Bausch "Police Dreams" The Atlantic
Will Blythe "The Taming Power of the Small" Epoch
Raymond Carver "Errand" The New Yorker
Richard Currey "Waiting for Trains" North American Review
Louise Erdrich "Snares" Harper's Magazine
Mavis Gallant "Dédé" The New Yorker
C. S. Godshalk "Wonderland" The Iowa Review
E. S. Goldman "Way to the Dump" The Atlantic
Lucy Honig "No Friends, All Strangers" The Agni Review
Gish Jen "The Water-Faucet Vision" Nimrod
Hilding Johnson "Victoria" StoryQuarterly
Brian Kiteley "Still Life with Insects" Fiction
Robert Lacy "The Natural Father" Crazyhorse
Ralph Lombreglia "Inn Essence" The Atlantic
Edith Milton "Entrechat" The Kenyon Review
Marjorie Sandor "Still Life" The Georgia Review
Robert Stone "Helping" The New Yorker
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall "Banana Boats" The Paris Review
Tobias Wolff "Smorgasbord" Esquire

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References

  1. Ravenel, Shannon and Mark Helprin (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1988, New York, 1988.
  2. "The Best American Short Stories 1988". pubishersweekly.com. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  3. "THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1988". kirkusreviews.com. September 15, 1988. Retrieved August 27, 2024.