The Best American Short Stories 1998

by Garrison Keillor (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Series Editor)

Other authors: Chris Adrian (Contributor), Carol Anshaw (Contributor), Poe Ballantine (Contributor), Bliss Broyard (Contributor), Emily Carter (Composer) — 15 more, Kathryn Chetkovich (Contributor), Matthew Crain (Contributor), Tim Gautreaux (Contributor), Hester Kaplan (Contributor), Doran Larson (Contributor), Lorrie Moore (Contributor), Antonya Nelson (Contributor), Edith Pearlman (Contributor), Padgett Powell (Contributor), E. Annie Proulx (Contributor), Diane Schoemperlen (Contributor), Akhil Sharma (Contributor), Maxine Swann (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), Meg Wolitzer (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Short Stories (1998), Best American (1998)

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An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.

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I picked this up by accident and am totally enthralled. I may just go to reading ONLY short stories. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Keillor, Garrison	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Kenison, Katrina	Series Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Adrian, Chris	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Anshaw, Carol	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ballantine, Poe	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Broyard, Bliss	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Carter, Emily	Composer	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chetkovich, Kathryn	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Crain, Matthew	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gautreaux, Tim	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kaplan, Hester	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Larson, Doran	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Moore, Lorrie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Nelson, Antonya	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Pearlman, Edith	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Powell, Padgett	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Proulx, E. Annie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Schoemperlen, Diane	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sharma, Akhil	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Swann, Maxine	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Updike, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wolitzer, Meg	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Welding with Children [short story] by Tim Gautreaux

Mr. Sweetly Indecent (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Bliss Broyard

The Half-Skinned Steer by Annie Proulx

Unified Front - short story by Antonya Nelson

Tea at the House by Meg Wolitzer

Wayne in Love (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Padgett Powell

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Chance (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Edith Pearlman

Morphine (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Doran Larson

Elvis Has Left the Building (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Carol Anshaw

Body Language (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Diane Schoemperlen

Would You Know It Wasn't Love (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Hester Kaplan

My Father on the Verge (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by John Updike

Appetites (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Kathryn Chetkovich

Cosmpolitan (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Akil Sharma

Penance (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Matthew Crain

The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue (in The Best American Short Stories 1998 - KENISON) by Poe Ballantine

People Like That Are the Only People Here by Lorrie Morrie

Every Night for a Thousand Years - short story by Chris Adrian

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An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.

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