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The Best American Short Stories 1972 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1972, xvi+412pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. ix · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · Gold · M. F. Beal · ss New American Review #11, 1971 16 · The World War I Los Angeles Airplane · Richard Brautigan · ss New American Review #12, 1971 20 · Covenant · Kelly Cherry · nv Commentary May 1971 48 · A Death on the East Side · Herbert Gold · nv Esquire May 1971 75 · The Supremacy of the Hunza · Joanne Greenberg · ss Transatlantic Review #39, Spring 1971 93 · The Breadman · Mary Heath · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1971 113 · Drums Again · Edward M. Holmes · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1971 123 · The Judge · Mary Gray Hughes · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1971 138 · In Black and White · Ann Jones · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1971 153 · Three Washington Stories · Ward Just · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1971 180 · His Day Out · Robert Kalechofsky · ss Western Humanities Review Summer 1971 193 · The Further Adventures of Brunhild · Rebecca Kavaler · nv The Yale Review Autumn 1971 212 · Fox and Swan · John L’Heureux · ss Transatlantic Review #40, Summer 1971 226 · Intimacy · Ralph Maloney · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1971 235 · The Aesculapians · Marvin Mandell · nv Epoch Spring 1971 256 · The Dock-Witch · Cynthia Ozick · nv Event Spring 1971 290 · The Vacation · Joe Ashby Porter · nv Occident Fall 1971 309 · The Magic Apple · Penelope Street · ss Occident 1971 324 · Meet Me in the Green Glen · Robert Penn Warren · nv Partisan Review 1971 347 · Stealing Cars · Theodore Weesner · nv Audience 1971 373 · The Guns in the Closet · Jose Yglesias · ss The New Yorker November 20 1971 391 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 401 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1971 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1973 & the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, August 28, 1973, 0-395-17119-9, xiii+312pp, hc, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · A City of Churches · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 22 1972 6 · The Slightest Distance · Henry Bromell · ss The New Yorker August 5 1972 23 · The Jewels of the Cabots · John Cheever · ss Playboy May 1972 38 · Cambridge Is Sinking! · John J. Clayton · ss Massachusetts Review Autumn 1972 57 · Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions · John William Corrington · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1972 67 · Robot · Guy Davenport · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1972 99 · The Death of Sun · William Eastlake · ss Cosmopolitan October 1972 119 · The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend · Alvin Greenberg · ss New American Review #14, 1972 132 · In the Words of · Julie Hayden · ss The New Yorker March 25 1972 142 · The Habits of the Animals: The Progress of the Seasons · George V. Higgins · ss North American Review Winter 1971/1972 150 · Burns · Ward Just · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1972 166 · Going Home · James S. Kenary · ss Massachusetts Review Autumn 1972 180 · The Way We Went · Wallace E. Knight · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1972 195 · The Broken Wings · Konstantinos Lardas · ss South Dakota Review 1972 206 · The Silver Bullet · James Alan McPherson · ss Playboy July 1972 221 · God’s Wrath · Bernard Malamud · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1972 228 · Silkie · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Malahat Review #23, July 1972 238 · Mothers · Sylvia Plath · ss McCall’s October 1972, as “The Mother’s Union” 248 · Come Away, Oh Human Child · Erik Sandberg-Diment · ss Kansas Quarterly 1972 262 · Country of the Painted Freaks · David Shetzline · ss The Paris Review #54, Summer 1972 276 · Happy August the 10th · Tennessee Williams · ss Esquire December 1972 289 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 297 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1972 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1974 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1974, xx+360pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. xi · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · The Deserter · Agnes Boyer · ss Prism International Spring 1973 6 · Beginnings · Jerry Bumpus · ss TriQuarterly #26, Winter 1973 16 · A Summer in Puerto Rico · Eleanor Clark · nv The Southern Review Spring 1973 45 · The Party · Pat M. Esslinger-Carr · ss The Southern Review Summer 1973 52 · Mansion, Magic, and Miracle · Lewis B. Horne · ss The Colorado Quarterly Autumn 1973 67 · Down the American River · Rose Graubart Ignatow · nv Shenandoah Summer 1973 87 · Opening the Door on Sixty-Second Street · Maxine Kumin · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1973 95 · Tom · Mary Lavin · ss The New Yorker January 20 1973 112 · A Family Affair · John L’Heureux · nv The Atlantic Monthly June 1973 142 · The Chamber Music Evening · Philip Lopate · nv The Paris Review #56, Spring 1973 167 · The Tide and Isaac Bates · Stephen Minot · ss Quarterly Review of Literature v18 #3, 1973 - v18 #4, 1973 179 · Letter from Sakaye · Beverly Mitchell · ss The Fiddlehead Fall 1973 194 · Dog in the Manger · Michael Rothschild · nv Antæus #10, Summer 1973 219 · Calloway’s Climb · Peter L. Sandberg · nv Playboy September 1973 244 · Isn’t Today the Day · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1973 252 · The Gray · Philip H. Schneider · nv Kansas Quarterly Summer 1973 266 · Old Vemish · Barry Targan · nv Squire Fall 1973 306 · Son · John Updike · ss The New Yorker April 21 1973 312 · Honeymoon · Arturo Vivante · ss The New Yorker November 26 1973 318 · The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff · Alice Walker · ss Ms. July 1973 335 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 343 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1973 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1975 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1975, xxii+314pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. xi · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · The Lie · Russell Banks · ss Fiction International #2/3, 1974 8 · The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974 12 · How to Win · Rosellen Brown · ss Redbook September 1974 26 · Desert Matinee · Jerry Bumpus · ss Fiction International #2/3, 1974 37 · Bambi Meets the Furies · Frederick Busch · ss The Ohio Review Fall 1974 47 · Waiting for Astronauts · Nancy Chaikin · ss The Colorado Quarterly Autumn 1974 59 · Paths Unto the Dead · Mary Clearman · ss Georgia Review Summer 1974 69 · Tyranny · Lyll Becerra de Jenkins · ss The New Yorker November 25 1974 80 · Cadence · Andre Dubus · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1974 100 · Big Boy · Jesse Hill Ford · ss The Atlantic Monthly 1974 111 · The Spirit in Me · William Hoffman · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 1974 124 · The Analyst · Evan Hunter · ss Playboy December 1974 137 · How Jerem Came Home · Paul Kaser · ss The Colorado Quarterly Autumn 1974 144 · The Lost Salt Gift of Blood · Alistair MacLeod · ss The Southern Review 1974 162 · The Burial · Jack Matthews · ss Georgia Review Winter 1974 178 · The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax · Eugene McNamara · ss Canadian Fiction Magazine Winter 1974 197 · Night and Day at Panacea · Reynolds Price · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1974 212 · Polonaise · Abraham Rothberg · nv Massachusetts Review v15 #4, 1974 254 · Lullaby · Leslie Silko · ss Chicago Review Summer 1974 264 · The Man Who Lived · Barry Targan · ss The Southern Review 1974 278 · The American Sickness · Jose Yglesias · ss Massachusetts Review v15 #4, 1974 291 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 297 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1974 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1976 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1976, xx+364pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. xi · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975 15 · Terminal Procedure · M. Pabst Battin · ss American Review #22, 1975 34 · The Boy Who Was Astrid’s Mother · Mae Seidman Briskin · nv Ascent 1975 54 · Beautiful, Helpless Animals · Nancy Chaikin · ss The Colorado Quarterly 1975 68 · The Actes and Monuments · John William Corrington · nv The Sewanee Review Winter 1975 98 · A Chronicle of Love · H. E. Francis · ss Kansas Quarterly Winter/Spring 1975 116 · Pontius Pilate · John Hagge · ss The Carleton Miscellany October 14 1975 133 · Dietz at War · Ward Just · ss The Virginia Quarterly Autumn 1975 145 · John Henry’s Home · John McCluskey · ss The Iowa Review 1975 156 · Grubbing for Roots · Stephen Minot · ss North American Review 1975 170 · Looking Into Nothing · Kent Nelson · ss Transatlantic Review #51, Spring 1975 181 · A Mercenary · Cynthia Ozick · nv American Review #23, 1975 209 · Broad Day · Reynolds Price · ss Shenandoah 1975 220 · Wondermonger · Michael Rothschild · na Antæus #18, Summer 1975 274 · Surviving Adverse Seasons · Barry Targan · nv Salmagundi 1975 314 · The Hand of Emmagene · Peter Taylor · ss Shenandoah 1975 333 · The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 21 1975 341 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 349 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1975 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1977 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1977, xx+374pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Rich Horton. xi · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · The Trouble with Being Food · Frederick Busch · ss Esquire April 1976 15 · Tarzan Meets the Department Head · Price Caldwell · ss The Carleton Miscellany 1976 24 · Falconer · John Cheever · ss Playboy January 1976 43 · At Peace · Ann Copeland · nv Canadian Fiction Magazine August 1976 66 · Pleadings · John William Corrington · nv The Southern Review Winter 1976 102 · Growing Up in No Time · Philip Damon · ss Hawaii Review 1976 111 · The Steinway Quintet · Leslie Epstein · na Antæus 1976 161 · The Lover · Eugene K. Garber · nv Shenandoah 1976 181 · Look at a Teacup · Patricia Hampl · ss The New Yorker June 28 1976 188 · Rider · Baine Kerr · ss The Denver Quarterly 1976 205 · A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon · John Matthews · ss Malahat Review July 1976 210 · A Passion for History · Stephen Minot · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 1976 222 · The Woman Who Thought Like a Man · Charles Newman · ss Partisan Review Fall 1976 235 · Gay · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Playboy December 1976 256 · Going After Cacciato · Tim O’Brien · nv Ploughshares Spring 1976 275 · The Chink and the Clock People · Tom Robbins · ss American Review 1976 291 · A Fresno Fable · William Saroyan · vi The New Yorker January 19 1976 293 · Breed · John Sayles · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1976 317 · Your Place Is Empty · Anne Tyler · nv The New Yorker November 22 1976 338 · Anthropology: What Is Lost in Rotation · William S. Wilson · ss Antæus 1976 351 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 355 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1976 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best of The Best American Short Stories ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1952, hc, an)     Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo. · How the Devil Came Down Division Street · Nelson Algren · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1944 · I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial February 1922 · The Blue Sash · Warren Beck · ss Story #68, March 1938 · Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker October 4 1941 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Winter 1946 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947 · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945 · Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 20 1917 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 · Hand Upon the Waters [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1939 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923 · The Peach Stone · Paul Horgan · nv The Yale Review Summer 1942 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 · Man on a Road · Albert Maltz · ss New Masses January 8 1935 · Prince of Darkness · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Winter 1946 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 · Search Through the Streets of the City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 2 1941 · The Interior Castle · Jean Stafford · ss Partisan Review November/December 1946 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932 · The Women on the Wall · Wallace Stegner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1946 · Dawn of Remembered Spring · Jesse Stuart · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1942 · A Wife of Nashville · Peter Taylor · nv The New Yorker December 3 1949 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 · A Curtain of Green · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1938

The Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1965, 0-395-07687-0, vi+814pp, hc, an) v · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw 1 · The Survivors · Elsie Singmaster · ss The Outlook May 26 1915 8 · The Lost Phoebe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916 23 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring W. Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922 38 · I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial February 1922 49 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923 61 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 67 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 82 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 87 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 98 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 118 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932 138 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 148 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 154 · A Life in the Day of a Writer · Tess Slesinger · ss Story #40, November 1935 165 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 190 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 203 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 214 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 247 · Hand Upon the Waters [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1939 261 · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940 270 · Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker October 4 1941 278 · Search Through the Streets of the City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 2 1941 286 · Who Lived and Died Believing · Nancy Hale · nv Harper’s Bazaar September 1942 305 · The Peach Stone · Paul Horgan · nv The Yale Review Summer 1942 323 · Dawn of Remembered Spring · Jesse Stuart · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1942 330 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 339 · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943 375 · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945 387 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947 397 · Children Are Bored on Sunday · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker February 21 1948 407 · The NRACP · George P. Elliott · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1949 438 · In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks · Hortense Calisher · ss The New Yorker August 12 1950 453 · The Other Foot · Ray Bradbury · ss New-Story #1, March 1951 466 · Three Players of a Summer Game · Tennessee Williams · nv The New Yorker November 1 1952 488 · A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1952 508 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 524 · A Circle in the Fire · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1954 542 · The First Flower · Augusta Wallace Lyons · ss New Campus Writing ed. Nolan Miller, Bantam, 1955 549 · The Contest for Aaron Gold · Philip Roth · ss Epoch Fall 1955 563 · One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955 573 · To the Wilderness I Wander · Frank Butler · nv The Hudson Review Spring 1956 602 · The Ledge · Lawrence Sargent Hall · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1958/1959 618 · This Morning, This Evening, So Soon · James Baldwin · nv The Atlantic Monthly September 1960 656 · Tell Me a Riddle · Tillie Olsen · nv New World Writing #16 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960 691 · The Old Army Game · George Garrett · ss The Sewanee Review July/September 1961 702 · Pigeon Feathers · John Updike · nv The New Yorker August 19 1961 720 · Sound of a Drunken Drummer · H. W. Blattner · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1962 760 · The Keyhole Eye · John Stewart Carter · nv The Kenyon Review Autumn 1962 785 · A Long Day’s Dying · William Eastlake · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1963 799 · Upon the Sweeping Flood · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Southwest Review Spring 1963