Editor | Katrina Kenison and Louise Erdrich |
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Language | English |
Series | The Best American Short Stories |
Published | 1993 |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
ISBN | 0395636272 |
Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1992 |
Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1994 |
The Best American Short Stories 1993, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Louise Erdrich. [1]
Author | Story | Source |
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John Updike | "Playing with Dynamite" | The New Yorker |
Mary Gaitskill | 'The Girl on the Plane" | Mirabella |
Alice Munro | "A Real Life" | The New Yorker |
Larry Woiwode | "Silent Passengers" | The New Yorker |
Alice Fulton | "Queen Wintergreen" | TriQuarterly |
Harlan Ellison | "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore" | Omni |
Jane Shapiro | "Poltergeists" | The New Yorker |
Susan Power | "Red Mocassions | Story |
Thom Jones | "I Want to Live!" | Harper's Magazine |
Tony Earley | "Charlotte" | Harper's Magazine |
Janet Peery | "What the Thunder Said" | Black Warrior Review |
Antonya Nelson | "Naked Ladies" | The New Yorker |
Stephen Dixon | "Man, Woman, Boy" | Western Humanities Review |
Andrea Lee | "Winter Barley" | The New Yorker |
Joanna Scott | "Concerning Mold Upon the Skin, Etc." | Anteaus |
Wendell Berry | "Pray Without Ceasing" | The Southern Review |
Kim Edwards | "Gold" | Anteaus |
Diane Johnson | "Great Barrier Reef" | The New Yorker |
Lorrie Moore | "Terrific Mother" | The Paris Review |
Mary Gordon | "The Important Houses" | The New Yorker |
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