The Best American Short Stories 1962 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 Light of the Sea"The Colorado QuarterlyWayson S. Choy"The Sound of Waves"PRISM internationalEdward Dahlberg"Because I Was Flesh"Prairie SchoonerBorden Deal"Antaeus"Southwest ReviewStanley Elkin"Criers and Kibbitzers, Kibbitzers and Criers"PerspectiveSeymour Epstein"Wheat Closed Higher, Cotton Was Mixed"RedbookGeorge Garrett "The Old Army Game"The Sewanee ReviewWilliam H. Gass"The Pedersen Kid"MSSSister Mary Gilbert"The Model Chapel"The Virginia Quarterly ReviewDonald Hall"A Day on Ragged"The New YorkerHenia Karmel-Wolfe"The Last Day"The ReporterMary Lavin"In the Middle of the Fields"The New YorkerJack Thomas Leahy"Hanging Hair"Kenyon ReviewBen Maddow"To Hell the Rabbis"Kenyon ReviewMiriam McKenzie"Déjà Vu"New World WritingArthur Miller"The Prophecy"EsquireE. Lucas Myers"The Vindication of Dr. Nestor"The Sewanee ReviewFlannery O'Connor"Everything That Rises Must Converge"New World WritingThalia Selz"The Education of a Queen"Partisan ReviewIrwin Shaw"Love on a Dark Street"EsquireJohn Updike"Pigeon Feathers"The New Yorker
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