The Best American Short Stories 1965 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 Author Story SourceL.J. Amster"Center of Gravity"The Saturday Evening PostDaniel De Paola"The Returning"Prairie SchoonerStanley Elkin"The Transient"The Saturday Evening PostJack Gilchrist"Opening Day"The Georgia ReviewJames W. Groshong"The Gesture"The Antioch ReviewMartin J. Hamer"Sarah"The Atlantic MonthlyMaureen Howard"Sherry"The Hudson ReviewDonald Hutter"A Family Man"The Saturday Evening PostHenia Karmel-Wolfe"The Month of His Birthday"MademoiselleMary Lavin"Heart of Gold"The New YorkerDennis Lynds"A Blue Blonde in the Sky over Pennsylvania"The Hudson ReviewFrederic Morton"The Guest"The Hudson ReviewJay Neugeboren"The Application"The Transatlantic ReviewJoyce Carol Oates"First Views of the Enemy"Prairie SchoonerLeonard Wallace Robinson"The Practice of about Art"The Saturday Evening PostIsaac Bashevis Singer"A Sacrifice"Harper's MagazineAbraham Rothberg"Pluto is the Furthest Planet"The Yale ReviewRobert Somerlott"Eskimo Pies"The Atlantic MonthlyElizabeth Spencer"The Visit"Prairie SchoonerJean Stafford"The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies"The Kenyon ReviewGerald Stein"For I Have Wept"The Saturday Evening PostPeter Taylor"There"The Kenyon ReviewLee Yu-Hwa"The Last Rite"The Literary Review
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