The Best American Short Stories 1958 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 Agee"The Waiting"The New YorkerJames Baldwin"Sonny’s Blues"Partisan ReviewPaul Bowles"The Frozen Fields"Harper's BazaarRay Bradbury"The Day It Rained Forever"Harper's MagazineGeorge Bradshaw"The Picture Wouldn’t Fit In The Stove'"VogueAlfred Chester"As I Was Going Up the Stair"The Sewanee ReviewShirley Ann Grau"Hunter’s Home"MademoisellePati Hill"Ben"The Paris ReviewRobie Macauley"Legend of Two Swimmers"The Kenyon ReviewJean McCord"Somewhere Out of Nowhere"QuixoteHoward Nemerov"A Delayed Hearing"The Kenyon ReviewFlannery O'Connor"A View of the Woods"Partisan ReviewAnthony Ostroff"La Bataille Des Fleurs "The Kenyon ReviewDorothy Parker"The Banquet Of Crow"The New YorkerRalph Robin"Mr. Pruitt"Prairie SchoonerJean Stafford"A Reasonable Facsimile"The New YorkerHarvey Swados"Joe, The Vanishing American"The Hudson ReviewRichard Thurman"Not Another Word"The New YorkerBob Van Scoyk"Home From Camp"Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineRobin White"House of Many Rooms"Harper's MagazineRichard Wright "Big, Black, Good Man"Esquire
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