The Best American Short Stories 2003, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Walter Mosley.Kenison, Katrina and Mosley, Walter(editors), The Best American Short Stories 2003 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2003.Publishers Weekly, August 11, 2003Molly McQuade, Realism re-examined; Short-story anthologies and collections that offer respite from the fiction malfunction, Chicago Tribune, March 14, 2004
Short stories included Author Story SourceMary Yukari Waters "Rationing" The Missouri Review Susan Straight "Mines" Zoetrope Mona Simpson "Coins" Harper's Magazine Jess Row "Heaven Lake" Harvard ReviewEmily Ishem Raboteau "Kavita Through Glass" Tin House Sharon Pomerantz "Ghost Knife" Ploughshares Marilene Phipps "Marie-Ange's Ginen" Callaloo Dean Paschall "Moriya" Ontario Review ZZ Packer "Every Tongue Shall Confess" Ploughshares Nicole Krauss "Further Emergencies" Esquire Adam Haslett "Devotion" The Yale Review Ryan Harty "Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down" Tin House Louise Erdrich "Shamengwa" The New Yorker Anthony Doerr "The Shell Collector" Chicago Review E. L. Doctorow "Baby Wilson" The New Yorker Edwidge Danticat "Night Talkers" Callaloo Rand Richards Cooper "Johnny Hamburger" Esquire Dan Chaon "The Bees" Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Kevin Brockmeier "Space" The Georgia Review Dorothy Allison "Compassion" Tin House
Other notable stories
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2002" were Andrea Barrett, Rick Bass, Robert Coover, Donald Hall, Brad Vice, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, John Updike and John Edgar Wideman.
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