The Best American Short Stories 2004, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Lorrie Moore.Kennison, Katrina and Moore, Lorrie (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2004 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2004.
Short stories included Author Story Where story previously appearedSherman Alexie "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" The New Yorker T. Coraghessan Boyle "Tooth and Claw" The New Yorker Catherine Brady "Written in Stone" Zyzzyva Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum "Accomplice" The Georgia ReviewCharles D'Ambrosio "Screenwriter" The New Yorker Stuart Dybek "Breasts" Tin House Deborah Eisenberg "Some Other, Better Otto" The Yale Review Paula Fox "Grace" Harper's Magazine Nell Freudenberger "The Tutor" Granta Edward P. Jones "A Rich Man" The New Yorker Trudy Lewis "Limestone Diner" Meridian Jill McCorkle "Intervention" Ploughshares Thomas McGuane "Gallatin Canyon" The New Yorker Alice Munro "Runaway" The New Yorker Angela Pneuman "All Saints Day" Virginia Quarterly Review Annie Proulx "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick" The New Yorker R. T. Smith "Docent" The Missouri Review John Updike "The Walk with Elizanne" The New Yorker Mary Yukari Waters "Mirror Studies" Zoetrope John Edgar Wideman "What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence" Harper's Magazine
Other notable stories
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2003" were Max Apple, Kevin Brockmeier, Dan Chaon, Stephen King, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates and Joy Williams.
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