The Best American Short Stories 1973
1973 short story anthology
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The Best American Short Stories 1973 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]
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| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9780395171196 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1972 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1974 |
Background
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]
Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Barthelme | "A City of Churches" | The New Yorker |
| Henry Bromell | "The Slightest Distance" | The New Yorker |
| John Cheever | "The Jewels of the Cabots" | Playboy |
| John J. Clayton | "Cambridge is Sinking!" | The Massachusetts Review |
| John William Corrington | "Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions" | The Sewanee Review |
| Guy Davenport | "Robot" | The Hudson Review |
| William Eastlake | "The Death of Sun" | Cosmopolitan |
| Alvin Greenberg | "The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend" | The New American Review |
| Julie Hayden | "In the Words of" | The New Yorker |
| George V. Higgins | "The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons" | North American Review |
| Ward Just | "Burns" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| James S. Kenary | "Going Home" | The Massachusetts Review |
| Wallace E. Knight | "The Way We Went" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Konstantinos Lardas | "The Broken Wings" | The South Dakota Review |
| James Alan McPherson | "The Silver Bullet" | Playboy |
| Bernard Malamud | "God's Wrath" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Silkie" | The Malahat Review |
| Sylvia Plath | "Mothers" | McCall's |
| Erik Sandberg-Diment | "Come Away, Oh Human Child" | Kansas Quarterly |
| David Shetzline | "Country of the Painted Freaks" | The Paris Review |
| Tennessee Williams | "Happy August the 10th" | Esquire |