The Best American
Short Stories
Book Details
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.
Foreword
Introduction by Richard Russo
Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched
from Tin House
Into Silence
from The Sewannee Review
The Cousins
from Tin House
Safari
from The New Yorker
Someone Ought to Tell Her There's No Place to Go
from a Public Space
The Valetudinarian
from The New Yorker
Delicate Edible Birds
from Glimmer Train
Least Resistance
from The Atlantic
The Hollow
from The Paris Review
Painted Ship, Painted Ocean
from Ploughshares
My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer
from Cincinnati Review
PS
from The Atlantic
Further Interpretations of Real Life Events
from McSweeney's
The Laugh
from The Atlantic
All Boy
from New England Review
The Ascent
from Tin House
The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach
from Tin House.
The Netherlands Lives With Water
from McSweeney's
Cowboy Tango
from Virginia Quarterly Review
Raw Water
from McSweeny's
Contributors' Notes
Other Distinguished Stories of 2009
Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories
Other distinguished submissions on this topic, selected by the series editor.
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A.M. Homes
from The New Yorker, March 2, 2009.
Abby Geni
from Glimmer Train, Issue 73.
Allis Hammond
from Black Warrior Review, Vol. 36.1.
Alyson Hagy
from The Idaho Review, Vol. X.
Amity Gaige
from The Yale Review, Vol. 93, No. 3.
Amy Bloom
from Granta, No. 106.
Andrew Ervin
from Conjunctions, No. 53.
Ann Beattie
from Five Points, Vol. 10, No. 4.
Ann Pancake
from The Georgia Review, Vol. Lxiii, No. 2.
Anthony Doerr
from Tin House, Vol. 10, No. 4.
Antonya Nelson
from The New Yorker, Jan. 19, 2009.
Aria Beth Schloss
from Glimmer Train, Issue 70.
Ashleigh Pedersen
from The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 2.
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Beth Ann Fennelly And Tom Franklin
from The Normal School, Vol. 2, Issue 2.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
from Boulevard, Vol. 24, Issues 2 & 3.
Brad Watson
from The New Yorker, April 6, 2009.
Bret Anthony Johnston
from Agni, No. 69.
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Caitlin Horrocks
The Paris Review, Issue 188.
Carolyn Cooke
from The Idaho Review, Vol. X.
Carrie Brown
from One Story, Issue 116.
Chris Adrian
from The New Yorker, April 20,2009.
Chris Gavaler
from The Hudson Review, Vol. Lxii, No. 1
Christopher Sorrentino
from Open City, No. 28
Colm Toibin
from The New Yorker, April 13, 2009
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David Huddle
from The Georgia Review, Vol. Lxiii, No. 1
David Means
from Harper's, April, 2009
David Allan Cates
from Glimmer Train, Issue 70
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Edith Pearlman
from The Cincinnati Review, Vol. 6, No. 1
Eleanor Lerman
from The Missouri Review, Vol. 32, No. 3.
Elise Juska
from The Missouri Review, Vol. 32, No. 4
Elizabeth Kadetsky
from The Antioch Review, Vol. 67, No. 3.
Elizabeth McCracken
from Zoetrope, Vol. 13, No. 4
Elizabeth Spencer
from Five Points, Vol. 13, No. 1
Emily Quinlan
from Santa Monica Review, Vol. 21, No. 1
Eugene Cross
from American Short Fiction, Vol. 12, Issue 46
F
Francine Prose
from Conjunctions, No. 53
G
Geoffrey Becker
from Shenandoah, Vol. 59, No. 1
George Saunders
from The New Yorker, Feb. 2, 2009
George Saunders
from The New Yorker, Oct. 5, 2009
Giles Harvey
from Agni, No. 70
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Jason Brown
from Prairie Schooner, Vol. 83, No. 8.
Jean Thompson
from Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2
Jean Ross Justice
from The Sewanee Review, Vol. Lxvii, No. 3.
Jeff Snowbarger
from NTin House, Issue 42.
Jennifer Haigh
from One Story, Issue 125
Jess Row
from Ploughshares, Vol. 35, No. L
Jesse Goolsby
from Harpur Palate, Vol. 9, Issue 1
Joan Silber
from Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 2
Joe Meno
from One Story, Issue 122
Jonathan Franzen
from The New Yorker, June 8 And 15, 2009
Jonathan Lethem
from The New Yorker, May 25, 2009
Joshua Ferris
from Tin House, No. 40
Joyce Carol Oates
from Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. Xlviii, No. 1
K
K.L. Cook
from Glimmer Train, Issue 73
Karen Bergstrom Brittain
from Narrative Magazine. 2009.
Karen Brown
from Five Points, Vol. 13, No. 1
Karen Heuler
from Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 26, Nos. 2 & 3.
Kent Nelson
from The Atlantic, Summer Fiction Issue
Kirstin Valdez Quade
from The New Yorker, July 27, 2009
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Leila Mansouri
from Santa Monica Review, Vol. 21, No. 2
Leslee Becker
from Crazyhorse, Vol. 59, No. 1
Lori Ostlund
from The Kenyon Review, Vol. Xxxi, No. 4
Lori Ostlund
from New England Review, Vol. 30, No. 3.
Louise Jarvis
from Irish Twins
M
Maggie Shipstead
from Mississippi Review, Vol. 85, No. 4.
Margot Livesey
from Ninth Letter, Vol. 6, No. 1
Mary Morrissy
from Glimmer Train, Issue 71.
Matt Bell
from Conjunctions, No. 53
Michael Byers
from Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. Xlvii, No. 2
Michael Byers
from Tin House, Vol. 11, No. 1.
Michael Dahlie
from Tin House, Vol. 11, No. 1
Michael P. Kardos
from Prairie Schooner, 83.1
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Nancy Reisman
from Glimmer Train, Issue 73.
Nora Johnson
from Confrontation, No. 104
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P
Pasha Malla
from Tin House, Issue 43
Peter Lasalle
from New England Review, Vol. 30, No. 3
Peter Orner
from The Southern Review, Vol. 45. No. 4.
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Rachel Furey
from Sycamore Review, Vol. 21, Issue 2
Rebecca Chace
from Fiction, Issue 55
Richard Bausch
from Narrative Magazine
Richard Powers
from The Paris Review, No. 190
Robin Black
from Hunger Mountain, 14
Rosellen Brown
from Northwest Review, Vol. 47, No. 3.
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Sasha Troyan
from Ploughshares, Vol. 35, No. 1
Scott Nadelson
from Upstreet, No.5
Seth Fried
from One Story, Issue 124
Shena McAuliffe
from Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 26, Nos. 1 & 2.
Sheri Joseph
from Prairie Schooner, Vol. 83, No. 1
Skip Horack
from Narrative Magazine
Stephanie Reents
from Epoch, Vol. 58, No. 3
Stephen King
from The New Yorker, Nov. 9, 2009
Stephen Millhauser
from The New Yorker, Feb. 9 & 16, 2009
Steve Yates
from Triquarterly, 132
Susan Perabo
from The Iowa Review, Vol. 39, No. 1
Susan Woodring
from Ruminate, Issue 11
Suzanne Rivecca
from American Short Fiction, Vol. 12, Issue 46
T
T.C. Boyle
from A Public Space, Issue 9
T.C. Boyle
from The New Yorker, Jan. 18, 2010.
Tamas Dobozy
from Agni, No. 70.
Téa Obreht
from The New Yorker, June 8 & 15, 2009
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V
V.V. Ganeshananthan
from Granta, Issue 109
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Wendell Berry
from Oxford American, No. 66
Wendell Berry
from Sewanee Review, Vol. Cxvii, No. 2.
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Y
Yiyun Li
from The New Yorker, Nov. 16, 2009
