The Best American Short Stories 1975, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Background The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction""Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73. and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature, curated by well-known guest editors since 1915."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47. Specifically, Amy Hempel considered it and the O. Henry Award's prize anthology to compile "the best short fiction published in American and Canadian magazines during the preceding year."
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs and literary magazines, specifically with considerable "influence" in college libraries, short fiction courses, and fiction workshops."'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18.
Short stories included Author Story SourceRussell Banks"The Lie"Fiction InternationalDonald Barthelme"The School"The New YorkerRosellen Brown"How to Win"The Massachusetts ReviewJerry Bumpus"Desert Matinee"Fiction InternationalFrederick Busch"Bambi Meets the Furies"The Ohio ReviewNancy Chaikin"Waiting for Astronauts"The Colorado QuarterlyMary Clearman"Paths Unto the Dead"The Georgia ReviewLyll Becerra De Jenkins"Tyranny"The New YorkerAndre Dubus"Cadence"The Sewanee ReviewJesse Hill Ford"Big Boy"Atlantic MonthlyWilliam Hoffman"The Spirit in Me"The Sewanee ReviewEvan Hunter"The Analyst"PlayboyPaul Kaser"How Jerem Came Home"The Colorado QuarterlyAlistair MacLeod"The Lost Salt Gift of Blood"The Southern ReviewJack Matthews"The Burial"The Georgia ReviewEugene McNamara"The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax"The Canadian Fiction MagazineReynolds Price"Night and Day at Panacea"Harper's MagazineAbraham Rothberg"Polonaise"The Massachusetts ReviewLeslie Silko"Lullaby"Chicago ReviewBarry Targan"The Man Who Lived"The Southern ReviewJose Yglesias"The American Sickness"The Massachusetts Review
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