The Best American Short Stories 1973
| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9780395171196 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1972 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1974 |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Barthelme | "A City of Churches" | The New Yorker |
| Henry Bromell | "The Slightest Distance" | The New Yorker |
| John Cheever | "The Jewels of the Cabots" | Playboy |
| John J. Clayton | "Cambridge is Sinking!" | The Massachusetts Review |
| John William Corrington | "Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions" | The Sewanee Review |
| Guy Davenport | "Robot" | The Hudson Review |
| William Eastlake | "The Death of Sun" | Cosmopolitan |
| Alvin Greenberg | "The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend" | The New American Review |
| Julie Hayden | "In the Words of" | The New Yorker |
| George V. Higgins | "The Habits of Animals: The Progress of the Seasons" | North American Review |
| Ward Just | "Burns" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| James S. Kenary | "Going Home" | The Massachusetts Review |
| Wallace E. Knight | "The Way We Went" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Konstantinos Lardas | "The Broken Wings" | The South Dakota Review |
| James Alan McPherson | "The Silver Bullet" | Playboy |
| Bernard Malamud | "God's Wrath" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Silkie" | The Malahat Review |
| Sylvia Plath | "Mothers" | McCall's |
| Erik Sandberg-Diment | "Come Away, Oh Human Child" | Kansas Quarterly |
| David Shetzline | "Country of the Painted Freaks" | The Paris Review |
| Tennessee Williams | "Happy August the 10th" | Esquire |
References
- ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1973). The Best American Short Stories 1973. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-20719-2.
- ^ "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.