The Best American Short Stories 1998, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Garrison Keillor.Kennison, Katrina and Keillor, Garrison (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1998, New York, 1998.KEILLOR'S DARK SIDE COMES TO LIGHT IN MONTAGE OF SHORT STORIES, Chicago Tribune, Nov.5, 1998A GOOD TIME TO BUY THE BEST, Hartford Courant Oct. 25, 1998
Short stories included Author Story SourceKathryn Chetkovich "Appetites" Zyzzyva Poe Ballantine "The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue" The Sun Diane Schoemperlen "Body Language" Story Edith Pearlman "Chance" The Antioch ReviewAkhil Sharma "Cosmopolitan" The Atlantic Monthly Carol Anshaw "Elvis Has Left the Building" Story Chris Adrian "Every Night for a Thousand Years" The New Yorker Maxine Swann "Flower Children" Ploughshares Emily Carter "Glory Goes and Gets Some" Open City Annie Proulx "The Half-Skinned Steer" The Atlantic Monthly Doran Larson "Morphine" Virginia Quarterly Review Bliss Broyard "Mr. Sweetly Indecent" Ploughshares John Updike "My Father on the Verge of Disgrace" The New Yorker Matthew Crain "Penance" Harper's Magazine Lorrie Moore "People Like That Are the Only People Here" The New Yorker Meg Wolitzer "Tea at the House" Ploughshares Antonya Nelson "Unified Front" The Midwesterner Padgett Powell "Wayne in Love" New England Review Tim Gautreaux "Welding with Children" The Atlantic Monthly Hester Kaplan "Would You Know It Wasn't Love" Gulf Coast
Other notable stories
Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997" were Ann Beattie, T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, and Tobias Wolff.
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