The Best American Short Stories 2007
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| Editor | Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 2006 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 2008 |
The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.[1]
Short Stories included
[edit]| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
|---|---|---|
| Louis Auchincloss | "Pa's Darling" | Yale Review |
| John Barth | "Toga Party" | Fiction |
| Ann Beattie | "Solid Wood" | Boulevard |
| T. C. Boyle | "Balto" | Paris Review |
| Randy DeVita | "Riding the Doghouse" | West Branch |
| Joseph Epstein | "My Brother Eli" | Hudson Review |
| William Gay | "Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You" | Tin House |
| Mary Gordon | "Eleanor's Music" | Ploughshares |
| Lauren Groff | "L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Beverly Jensen | "Wake" | New England Review |
| Roy Kesey | "Wait" | Kenyon Review |
| Stellar Kim | "Findings & Impressions" | Iowa Review |
| Aryn Kyle | "Allegiance" | Ploughshares |
| Bruce McAllister | "The Boy in Zaquitos" | Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Alice Munro | "Dimension" | The New Yorker |
| Eileen Pollack | "The Bris" | Subtropics |
| Karen Russell | "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" | Granta |
| Richard Russo | "Horseman" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jim Shepard | "Sans Farine" | Harper's Magazine |
| Kate Walbert | "Do Something" | Ploughshares |
Other notable stories
[edit]Stephen King also selected "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006." These included short stories by many well-known writers including Francine Prose's "An Open Letter to Doctor X" from Virginia Quarterly Review, Jhumpa Lahiri's "Once in a Lifetime" from The New Yorker, Lorrie Moore's "Paper Losses" from The New Yorker and Jacob Appel's "The Butcher's Music" from West Branch, as well as works by up-and-coming fiction writers such as David Kear, Matthew Pitt, Paula Nangle, Alison Clement and Justin Kramon.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pitor, Heidi and King, Stephen (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2007 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2007.
External links
[edit]- Best American Short Stories Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
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