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| Editor | Katrina Kenison and Alice Adams |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published | 1991 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0395544092 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1990 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1992 |
The Best American Short Stories 1991, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Alice Adams. [1]
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| Rick Bass | "The Legend of Pig-Eye" | The Paris Review |
| Charles Baxter | 'The Disappeared" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Amy Bloom | "Love Is Not a Pie" | Room of One's Own |
| Kate Braverman | "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta" | Squandering the Blue |
| Robert Olen Butler | "The Trip Back" | The Southern Review |
| Charles D'Ambrosio | "The Point" | The New Yorker |
| Millicent Dillon | "Oil and Water" | Southwest Review |
| Harriet Doerr | "Another Short Day in La Luz" | The New Yorker |
| Deborah Eisenberg | "The Custodian" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Gordon | "The Separation" | Antaeus |
| Elizabeth Graver | "The Body Shop" | The Southern Review |
| Siri Hustvedt | "Houdini" | Fiction |
| Mikhail Iossel | "Bologove" | Boulevard |
| David Jauss | "Glossolalia" | Shenandoah |
| Leonard Michaels | "Viva la Tropicana" | ZYZZYVA |
| Lorrie Moore | "Willing" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Friends of My Youth" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "American, Abroad" | The North American Review |
| Francine Prose | "Dog Stories" | Special Report-Fiction |
| John Updike | "A Sandstone Farmhouse" | The New Yorker |
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