The Best American Short Stories 1996
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The Best American Short Stories 1996, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor John Edgar Wideman
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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...
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Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
| Alice Adams Alice Adams Alice Adams is a 1921 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers around the character of a young woman, Alice Adams, who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the... |
"Complicities" | Michigan Quarterly Review Michigan Quarterly Review The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to... |
| Rick Bass Rick Bass Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist.-Life:Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum... |
"Fires" | Big Sky Journal |
| Jason Brown Jason Brown -Baltimore Ravens:Jason Brown started all 16 games at guard in the 2007 season after spending 2005 and 2006 as a backup to Ravens starter Mike Flynn. He later started all 16 games in the 2008 season as center. He was considered to be one of the best offensive lineman coming into Free Agency the... |
"Driving the Heart" | Mississippi Review |
| Robert Olen Butler Robert Olen Butler Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.-Early life:... |
"Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang , born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories. She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop- Life and career :... |
"The Eve of the Spirit Festival" | Prairie Schooner |
| Dan Chaon Dan Chaon Dan Chaon is an American writer.His first novel was You Remind Me of Me . His short-story collections Fitting Ends and Among the Missing were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library... |
"Fitting Ends" | TriQuarterly TriQuarterly TriQuarterly Online is a not-for-profit American literary magazine published twice a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art.... |
| Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.-Biography:Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University.... |
"The Silver Screen" | Harvard Review Harvard Review The Harvard Review is a literary magazine published by the Harvard University library system.Its origins can be dated to 1986, when Stratis Haviaras, the curator of the libraries' poetry room founded a magazine called Erato to publicize poetry room authors.The first issue included a poem by Seamus... |
| Junot Diaz Junot Díaz Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience... |
"Ysrael" | Story Magazine |
| Stephen Dixon | "Sleep" | Harpers Magazine Harpers Magazine Harpers Wine and Spirit Trade Review or simply Harpers is a British fortnightly publication for the wine and spirit industry. Founded in 1878, it has a circulation of 5,224 fully subscribed readers. It is read across all sectors of the drinks industry including producers, distributors,... |
| Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek -Personal life:Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959... |
"Paper Lantern" | The New Yorker |
| Deborah Galyan | "The Incredible Appearing Man" | Missouri Review |
| Mary Gordon | "Intersexuality" | The Recorder |
| David Huddle David Huddle David Ross Huddle is an American writer and professor. His most recent book is Glory River: Poems... |
"Past My Future" | Story Magazine |
| Anna Keesey | "Bright Winter" | Grand Street Grand Street Grand Street was an American magazine which appeared from 1981 to 2004. It was described by the New York Times as "one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era."-Founding:... |
| Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda... |
"In Roseau" | The New Yorker |
| William Henry Lewis | "Shades" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |
| William Lychack William Lychack William Lychack is the American author of the novel, The Wasp Eater, and a forthcoming collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers. His work has appeared in The Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories, Ascent, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Seattle Review, The Missouri Review,... |
"A Stand of Fables" | Quarterly West |
| Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction... |
"Ghost Girls" | American Short Fiction |
| Angela Patrinos | "Sculpture I" | The New Yorker |
| Susan Perabo | "Some Say the Word" | TriQuarterly |
| Lynn Sharon Schwartz | "The Trip to Halawa Valley" | Shenandoah (magazine) Shenandoah (magazine) Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review is a major literary magazine published by Washington and Lee University.- History :Originally a student-run quarterly, Shenandoah has evolved into a triannual literary journal edited by author R. T... |
| Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author.Born in Delhi, India, he immigrated to the United States when he was eight, and grew up in Edison, New Jersey. Sharma studied at Princeton University, where he earned his B.A. in public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School... |
"If You Sing Like That for Me" | The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,... |
| Jean Thompson | "All Shall Love Me and Despair" | Mid-American Review |
| Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon Melanie Rae Thon is an American writer, "widely regarded as one of the most original stylists writing fiction today." Thon has received grants from the National Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation... |
"Xmas, Jamaica Plain" | Ontario Review |