The Best American Short Stories 2010

Last updated
The Best American Short Stories 2010
The Best American Short Stories 2010.jpg
Editors Richard Russo and Heidi Pitlor
LanguageEnglish
Series The Best American Short Stories
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN 978-0-547-05528-2
Preceded by The Best American Short Stories 2009  
Followed by The Best American Short Stories 2011  

The Best American Short Stories 2010, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Richard Russo. [1]

Contents

Short Stories included

AuthorStoryWhere story previously appeared
Steve Almond "Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched" Tin House
Marlin Barton "Into Silence" The Sewanee Review
Charles Baxter "The Cousins" Tin House
Jennifer Egan "Safari" The New Yorker
Danielle Evans "Someone Ought to Tell Her There's Nowhere to Go" Public Space
Joshua Ferris "The Valetudinarian" The New Yorker
Lauren Groff "Delicate Edible Birds" Glimmer Train
Wayne Harrison "Least Resistance" The Atlantic
James Lasdun "The Hollow" The Paris Review
Rebecca Makkai "Painted Ship, Painted Ocean" Ploughshares
Brendan Matthews "My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer" Cincinnati Review
Jill McCorkle "PS" The Atlantic
Kevin Moffett "Further Interpretations of Real Life Events" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Téa Obreht "The Laugh" The Atlantic
Lori Ostlund "All Boy" New England Review
Ron Rash "The Ascent" Tin House
Karen Russell "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach" Tin House
Jim Shepard "The Netherlands Lives With Water" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Maggie Shipstead "Cowboy Tango" Virginia Quarterly Review
Wells Tower "Raw Water" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Notes

  1. Russo, Richard; Pitlor, Heidi, eds. (2010). The Best American Short Stories 2010. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-547-05528-2. OCLC   505420647.