The Best American Short Stories 1964 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 AuthorStorySourceFrieda Arkin"The Broomstick on the Porch"The Kenyon ReviewRichard G. Brown"Mr. Iscariot"The Literary ReviewJohn Stewart Carter"To a Tenor Dying Old"The Kenyon ReviewDaniel Curley"A Story of Love, Etc."EpochMay Dikeman"The Woman Across the Street"The Atlantic MonthlyWilliam Eastlake"A Long Day's Dying"Virginia Quarterly ReviewWilliam Goyen"Figure Over the Town"The Saturday Evening PostPaul Horgan"Black Snowflakes"The Saturday Evening PostWilliam Humphrey"The Pump"EsquireShirley Jackson"Birthday Party"VogueEdith Konecky"The Power"The Massachusetts ReviewKimon Lolos"Mule No. 095"The Carleton MiscellanyBernard Malamud"The German Refugee"The Saturday Evening PostCarson McCullers"Sucker"The Saturday Evening PostVirginia Moriconi"Simple Arithmetic"The Transatlantic ReviewJoyce Carol Oates"Upon the Sweeping Flood"Southwest ReviewReynolds Price"The Names and Faces of Heroes"ShenandoahVera Randal"Waiting for Jim"The Colorado QuarterlyHarvey Swados"A Story for Teddy"The Saturday Evening PostRobert Penn Warren"Have You Seen Sukie?"The Virginia Quarterly Review
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