The Best American Short Stories 1987, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by guest editor Ann Beattie with Shannon Ravenel.Beattie, Ann and Shannon Ravenel (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1987, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987.

Short stories included Author Story SourceSusan Sontag "The Way We Live Now" The New YorkerJohn Updike "The Afterlife" The New YorkerCraig Nova "The Prince" EsquireElizabeth Tallent "Favor" The New YorkerMavis Gallant "Kingdom Come" The New YorkerSue Miller "The Lover of Women" MademoiselleMadison Smartt Bell "The Lie Detector" The Crescent ReviewAlice Munro "Circle of Prayer" The Paris ReviewLee K. Abbott "Dreams of Distant Lives" Harper'sRalph Lombreglia "Men under Water" The AtlanticRaymond Carver "Boxes" The New YorkerBharati Mukherjee "The Tenant" The Literary ReviewJoy Williams "The Blue Men" EsquireKent Haruf "Private Debts / Public Holdings" Grand StreetCharles Baxter "How I Found My Brother" Indiana ReviewTobias Wolff "The Other Miller" The AtlanticRobert Taylor, Jr. "Lady of Spain" The Hudson ReviewDaniel Stern "The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: A Story" The Ontario ReviewRon Carlson "Milk" The North American ReviewTim O'Brien "The Things They Carried Esquire

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