The Best American Short Stories 1972 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series 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."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines."'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. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms.
Short stories included AuthorStorySource1972M. F. Beal"Gold"New American Review1972Richard Brautigan"The World War I Los Angeles Airplane"New American Review1972Kelly Cherry"Covenant"Commentary1972Herbert Gold"A Death on the East Side"Esquire1972Joanne Greenberg"The Supremacy of the Hunza "The Transatlantic Review1972Mary Heath"The Breadman"The Virginia Quarterly Review1972Edward M. Holmes"Drums Again"Virginia Quarterly Review1972Mary Gray Hughes"The Judge"The Atlantic Monthly1972Ann Jones"In Black and White"Virginia Quarterly Review1972Ward Just"Three Washington Stories"The Atlantic Monthly1972Roberta Kalechofsky"His Day Out"The Western Humanities Review1972Rebecca Kavaler"The Further Adventures of Brunhild"The Yale Review1972John L'Heureux"Fox and Swan"The Transatlantic Review1972Ralph Maloney"Intimacy"The Atlantic Monthly1972Marvin Mandell"The Aesculapians"Epoch1972Cynthia Ozick"The Dock-Witch"Event1972Joe Ashby Porter"The Vacation"Occident1972Penelope Street"The Magic Apple"Occident1972Robert Penn Warren"Meet Me in the Green Glen"Partisan Review1972Theodore Weesner"Stealing Cars"Audience1972Jose Yglesias"The Guns in the Closet"The New Yorker
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