The Best American Short Stories 1972
| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0395139509 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1971 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1973 |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]
Background
The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction"[2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.[3][4][5]
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines.[6] The Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms.[7]
Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | M. F. Beal | "Gold" | New American Review |
| 1972 | Richard Brautigan | "The World War I Los Angeles Airplane" | New American Review |
| 1972 | Kelly Cherry | "Covenant" | Commentary |
| 1972 | Herbert Gold | "A Death on the East Side" | Esquire |
| 1972 | Joanne Greenberg | "The Supremacy of the Hunza " | The Transatlantic Review |
| 1972 | Mary Heath | "The Breadman" | The Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 1972 | Edward M. Holmes | "Drums Again" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 1972 | Mary Gray Hughes | "The Judge" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1972 | Ann Jones | "In Black and White" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| 1972 | Ward Just | "Three Washington Stories" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1972 | Roberta Kalechofsky | "His Day Out" | The Western Humanities Review |
| 1972 | Rebecca Kavaler | "The Further Adventures of Brunhild" | The Yale Review |
| 1972 | John L'Heureux | "Fox and Swan" | The Transatlantic Review |
| 1972 | Ralph Maloney | "Intimacy" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1972 | Marvin Mandell | "The Aesculapians" | Epoch |
| 1972 | Cynthia Ozick | "The Dock-Witch" | Event |
| 1972 | Joe Ashby Porter | "The Vacation" | Occident |
| 1972 | Penelope Street | "The Magic Apple" | Occident |
| 1972 | Robert Penn Warren | "Meet Me in the Green Glen" | Partisan Review |
| 1972 | Theodore Weesner | "Stealing Cars" | Audience |
| 1972 | Jose Yglesias | "The Guns in the Closet" | The New Yorker |
References
- ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1972). The Best American Short Stories 1972. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395139509.
- ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
- ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
- ^ Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
- ^ "'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18.
- ^ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.