The Best American Short Stories 1970 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 AuthorStorySourceJack Cady"With No Breeze"The Carolina QuarterlyEldridge Cleaver"The Flashlight"PlayboyRobert Coover"The Magic Poker"EsquireOlivia Davis"The Other Child"Prairie SchoonerAndre Dubus"If They Knew Yvonne"North American ReviewJohn Bart Gerald"Blood Letting"The AtlanticAlfred Gillespie"Tonight at Nine Thirty-six"RedbookElla Leffland"The Forest"EpochJack Matthews "Another Story"The Sewanee ReviewWilliam Maxwell"The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel"The New YorkerWright Morris"Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House"The New YorkerJoyce Carol Oates"How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life all over again"TriQuarterlyPaul Olsen"The Flag Is Down"The Southern ReviewCynthia Ozick"Yiddish in America"CommentaryJules Siegel"In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu"EsquireIsaac Bashevis Singer"The Key"The New YorkerRobert Stone "Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta"New American ReviewPeter Taylor "Daphne's Lover"The Sewanee ReviewRosine Weisbrod"The Ninth Cold Day"Virginia Quarterly Review
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