The Best American Short Stories 2006, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Ann Patchett.Kenison, Katrina and Patchett, Ann (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2006 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2006.Editor's Choice, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 5, 2006.Review, Booklist, October 15, 2006 This edition is notable in that it was the last edition edited by Katrina Kenison, who was succeeded by Heidi Pitlor the following year. Also, Patchett chose to present the stories in reverse-alphabetical order.
Stories included (in order of table of contents) Author Story Where story previously appearedPaul Yoon "Once the Shore" One Story Tobias Wolff "Awaiting Orders" The New Yorker Donna Tartt "The Ambush" Tin House Maxine Swann "Secret" Ploughshares Mark Slouka "Dominion" TriQuarterly Patrick Ryan "So Much for Artemis" One Story Benjamin Percy "Refresh, Refresh" The Paris Review Edith Pearlman "Self-Reliance" Lake Effect Alice Munro "The View from Castle Rock" The New Yorker Kevin Moffett "Tattooizm" Tin House Thomas McGuane "Cowboy" The New Yorker Jack Livings "The Dog" The Paris Review Yiyun Li "After a Life" Zoetrope Aleksandar Hemon "The Conductor" The New Yorker Mary Gaitskill "Today I'm Yours" Zoetrope Nathan Englander "How We Avenged the Blums" The Atlantic Monthly Robert Coover "Grandmother's Nose" Daedalus David Bezmozgis "A New Gravestone for an Old Grave" Zoetrope Katherine Bell "The Casual Car Pool" Ploughshares Ann Beattie with Harry Mathews "Mr. Nobody at All" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Other notable stories
Included in the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006" were stories by noted authors like John Updike, Uwem Akpan, Alice Hoffman, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Donald Barthelme, Chris Adrian and Judy Budnitz.
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