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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000)

by John Updike (Editor), Katrina Kenison (Series Editor)

Other authors: Alice Adams (Contributor), Sherwood Anderson (Contributor), Donald Barthelme (Contributor), Ann Beattie (Contributor), Saul Bellow (Contributor) — 50 more, Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor), Harold Brodkey (Composer), Rosellen Brown (Contributor), Raymond Carver (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Grace Stone Coates (Contributor), Alice Elliott Dark (Contributor), Pam Durban (Contributor), Stanley Elkin (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Carolyn Ferrell (Contributor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), Mary Ladd Gavell (Contributor), Martha Gellhorn (Contributor), Susan Glaspell (Contributor), Alexander Godin (Contributor), Lawrence Sargent Hall (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), Paul Horgan (Contributor), Pam Houston (Contributor), Gish Jen (Contributor), Thom Jones (Contributor), Ring Lardner (Contributor), Mary Lerner (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), James Alan McPherson (Contributor), Lorrie Moore (Composer), Alice Munro (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor), Tim O'Brien (Cover artist), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Cynthia Ozick (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), Katherine Anne Porter (Contributor), J. F. Powers (Contributor), Annie Proulx (Contributor), Benjamin Rosenblatt (Contributor), Philip Roth (Contributor), William Saroyan (Contributor), Isaac Bashevis Singer (Contributor), Susan Sontag (Contributor), Jean Stafford (Contributor), Jean Toomer (Contributor), Robert Penn Warren (Contributor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), E. B. White (Contributor), Tennessee Williams (Contributor), Richard Wright (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Short Stories (20th Century), Best American (20th Century)

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"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket.… (more)
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Too twee and they’re all depressing ( )
  farrhon | Sep 29, 2022 |
One word: twee.

A collection of white people (mostly) pottering about (mostly) and then, to REALLY mix things up a bit, a couple of stories about (horror of horrors) social an economic stress. Phew, that was intense.

A complete lack of imagination by the editor: these are no one's best short stories. ( )
  GirlMeetsTractor | Mar 22, 2020 |
This was quite a collection. Although there were misses, the talented writers of various stories really managed to make this collection shine. For those interested in short stories, especially American ones, I recommend this collection. It was worth the read.

3.5 stars. ( )
  DanielSTJ | May 8, 2019 |
Sez who? There were a few of the short stories that I enjoyed, but they were mostly from the 1980's and 1990's. I found a lot of the earlier stories to be fairly weak. ( )
  AliceAnna | Sep 9, 2014 |
-A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell
published 1917 in Every Week

-Theft
Katherine Anne Porter
published 1930 in Gyroscope
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Updike, JohnEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kenison, KatrinaSeries Editormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Adams, AliceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Anderson, SherwoodContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Barthelme, DonaldContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Beattie, AnnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Coates, Grace StoneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dark, Alice ElliottContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Moore, LorrieComposersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Nabokov, VladimirContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Toomer, JeanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Welty, EudoraContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
White, E. B.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century
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The Best American Short Stories of the 20th Century
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Edward J. O'Brien was twenty-three years old, already a published poet and playwright, when he began work on the first volume of The Best American Short Stories. (Foreword)
These stories have been four times selected. (Introduction)
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"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket.
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Anthology contains:
  • Introduction / John Updike
  • Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt
  • Little Selves / Mary Lerner
  • A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell
  • The Other Woman / Sherwood Anderson
  • The Golden Honeymoon / Ring Lardner
  • Blood-Burning Moon / Jean Toomer
  • The Killers / Ernest Hemingway
  • Double Birthday / Willa Cather
  • Wild Plums / Grace Stone Coates
  • Theft / Katherine Anne Porter
  • That Evening Sun Go Down / William Faulkner
  • Here We Are / Dorothy Parker
  • Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • My Dead Brother Comes to America / Alexander Godin
  • Resurrection of a Life / William Saroyan
  • Christmas Gift / Robert Penn Warren
  • Bright and Morning Star / Richard Wright
  • The Hitch-Hikers / Eudora Welty
  • The Peach Stone / Paul Horgan
  • "That in Aleppo Once…" / Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Interior Castle / Jean Stafford
  • Miami-New York / Martha Gellhorn
  • The Second Tree from the Corner / E.B. White
  • The Farmer's Children / Elizabeth Bishop
  • Death of a Favorite / J.F. Powers
  • The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin / Tennessee Williams
  • The Country Husband / John Cheever
  • Greenleaf / Flannery O'Connor
  • The Ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
  • Defender of the Faith / Philip Roth
  • Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers / Stanley Elkin
  • The German Refugee / Bernard Malamud
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? / Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell
  • Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson
  • The Key / Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • A City of Churches / Donald Barthelme
  • How to Win / Rosellen Brown
  • Roses, Rhododendron / Alice Adams
  • Verona: A Young Woman Speaks / Harold Brodkey
  • A Silver Dish / Saul Bellow
  • Gesturing / John Updike
  • The Shawl / Cynthia Ozick
  • Where I'm Calling From / Raymond Carver
  • Janus / Ann Beattie
  • The Way We Live Now / Susan Sontag
  • The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien
  • Meneseteung / Alice Munro
  • You're Ugly, Too / Lorrie Moore
  • I Want to Live! / Thom Jones
  • In the Gloaming / Alice Elliott Dark
  • Proper Library / Carolyn Ferrell
  • Birthmates / Gish Jen
  • Soon / Pam Durban
  • The Half-Skinned Steer / Annie Proulx
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