The Best American Short Stories 1997
The Best American Short Stories 1997, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor E. Annie Proulx.[1][2] This was the first and only year that the stories were formally grouped by category, rather than alphabetically.
Short stories included
Category: Manners and Right Behavior
Author | Story | Source |
Ha Jin | "Saboteur" | The Antioch Review |
Robert Stone | "Under the Pitons" | Esquire |
Carolyn Cooke | "Bob Darling" | The Paris Review |
Jonathan Franzen | "Chez Lambert" | The Paris Review |
Category: Identifying the Stranger
Michelle Cliff | "Transactions" | TriQuarterly |
Richard Bausch | "Nobody in Hollywood" | The New Yorker |
Cynthia Ozick | "Save My Child!" | The New Yorker |
Karen E. Bender | "Eternal Love" | Granta |
Leonard Michaels | "A Girl with a Monkey" | Partisan Review |
Lydia Davis | "St. Martin" | Grand Street |
Category: Perceived Social Values
Junot Diaz | "Fiesta, 1980" | Story |
Donald Hall | "From Willow Temple" | The Atlantic Monthly |
T. Coraghessan Boyle | "Killing Babies" | The New Yorker |
Clyde Edgerton | "Send Me to the Electric Chair" | The Oxford American |
June Spence | "Missing Women" | The Southern Review |
Jeffrey Eugenides | "Air Mail" | The Yale Review |
Pam Durban | "Soon" | The Southern Review |
Category: Rites of Passage
Michael Byers | "Shipmates Down Under" | American Short Fiction |
Tobias Wolff | "Powder" | Fish Stories |
Alyson Hagy | "Search Bay" | Ploughshares |
Tim Gautreaux | "Little Frogs in a Ditch" | Gentlemen's Quarterly |
References
- ↑ Kennison, Katrina and Proulx, Annie (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1997, New York, 1997.
- ↑ The Best in the Truest Sense of the World, Chicago Tribune, Dec 22, 1997
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