The Best American Short Stories 1957 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 SourceNelson Algren"Beasts of the Wild"New World WritingGina Berriault"Around the Dear Ruin"The Paris ReviewDoris Betts"The Proud and Virtuous"MademoiselleFrank Butler"To The Wilderness I Wander"The Hudson ReviewWyatt Rainey Blassingame"Man’s Courage"Harper's MagazineWalter Clemons"The Dark Roots of the Rose"Harper's BazaarEvan S. Connell Jr."Arcturus"Western ReviewHarris Downey"The Song"Prairie SchoonerWilliam Eastlake"The Unhappy Hunting Grounds"The Hudson ReviewNancy Hale"A Summer’s Long Dream"The New YorkerJohn Langdon"The Blue Serge Suit"The Paris ReviewThomas Mabry"Lula Borrow"The Sewanee ReviewWinona McClintic"A Heart of Furious Fancies"The Atlantic MonthlyTillie Olsen"I Stand Here Ironing"The Pacific SpectatorAnthony Robinson"The Farlow Express"Prairie SchoonerRosanne Smith Robinson"The Impossible He"QuixoteJohn Campbell Smith"Run, Run Away, Brother"The Yale ReviewHenrietta Weigel"Saturday Is A Poor Man’s Port"QuixoteGordon Woodward"Escape to the City"Maclean’s Magazine
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