The Best American Short Stories 1968 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 AuthorStorySourceJames Baldwin"Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone"McCall’s MagazineJohn Deck"Greased Samba"The AtlanticJames T. Farrell"An American Student in Paris"The Southern ReviewGeorge H. Freitag"An Old Man and His Hat"Harper's MagazineHerb Gardner"Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"The Saturday Evening PostWilliam H. Gass"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country"The New American ReviewMary Ladd Gavell"The Rotifer"PsychiatryDonald Gropman"The Heart of This or That Man"The Literary ReviewWilliam Harrison "The Snooker Shark"The Saturday Evening PostJudith Higgins"The Only People"The AtlanticHelen Hudson"The Tenant"The Virginia Quarterly ReviewLeo E. Litwak"In Shock"Partisan ReviewRichard McKenna"The Sons of Martha"Harper's MagazineWilliam Moseley"The Preacher and Margery Scott"The Virginia Quarterly ReviewJoanna Ostrow"Celtic Twilight"The New YorkerNancy Huddleston Packer"Early Morning, Lonely Ride"The Southwest ReviewJohn Phillips"Bleat Blodgette"The Paris ReviewLawrence P. Spingarn"The Ambassador"The Southern Humanities ReviewWinston Weathers"The Games That We Played"The Georgia ReviewJanet Bruce Winn"Dried Rose Petals in a Silver Bowl"Evidence
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