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The BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES of the Century John Updike • EDITOR Katrina Kenison • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN UPDIKE HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON • NEW YORK

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Page 1: The BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES of the Century · The BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES of the Century ... Blood-Burning Moon 60 ... 1994 • CAROLYN FERRELL. Proper Library 705

TheBESTAMERICANSHORTSTORIESof the Century

John Updike • EDITOR

Katrina Kenison •

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY JOHN UPDIKE

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON • NEW YORK

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Contents

Foreword viiIntroduction by John Updike xv

1915 • BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT. Zelig 1

1916 • MARY LERNER. Little Selves 71917 • SUSAN GLASPELL. A Jury of Her Peers 181920 • SHERWOOD ANDERSON. The Other Woman 381922 • RING LARDNER. The Golden Honeymoon 451923 • JEAN TOOMER. Blood-Burning Moon 601927 • ERNEST HEMINGWAY. The Killers 68

1929 • WILLA CATHER. Double Birthday JJ

1929 • GRACE STONE COATES. Wild Plums 1001930 • KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. Theft 1051931 • WILLIAM FAULKNER. That Evening Sun Go Down i n1931 • DOROTHY PARKER. Here We Are 1271933 • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. Crazy Sunday 1361934 • ALEXANDER GODIN. My Dead Brother Comes to America 1531935 • WILLIAM SAROYAN. Resurrection of a Life 1591938 • ROBERT PENN WARREN. Christmas Gift 1691939 • RICHARD WRIGHT. Bright and Morning Star 1791940 • EUDORA WELTY. The Hitch-Hikers 2111943 • PAUL HORGAN. The Peach Stone 2241944 • VLADIMIR NABOKOV. "That in Aleppo Once . . . " 2411947 • JEAN STAFFORD. The Interior Castle 2501948 • MARTHA GELLHORN. Miami-New York 2641948 • E. B. WHITE. The Second Tree from the Corner 2811949 • ELIZABETH BISHOP. The Farmer's Children 286

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VI CONTENTS

1951 • j . F. POWERS. Death of a Favorite 2951951 • TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. The Resemblance Between a

Violin Case and a Coffin 3121955 • JOHN CHEEVER. The Country Husband 3251957 • FLANNERY O'CONNOR. Greenleaf 348

i960 • LAWRENCE SARGENT HALL. The Ledge 369i960 • P H I L I P ROTH. Defender of the Faith 3841962 • STANLEY ELKIN. Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers 4111964 • BERNARD MALAMUD. The German Refugee 4381967 • JOYCE CAROL OATES. Where Are You Going, Where Have

You Been? 4501968 • MARY LADD GAVELL. The Rotifer 466

1969 • JAMES ALAN McPHERSON. Gold Coast 4771970 • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. The Key 493

1973 ' DONALD BARTHELME. A City of Churches 5031975 • ROSELLEN BROWN. HOW tO Win 5O71976 • ALICE ADAMS. Roses, Rhododendron 5201978 • HAROLD BRODKEY. Verona: A Young Woman Speaks 5331979 • SAUL BELLOW. A Silver Dish 5391980 • JOHN UPDIKE. Gesturing 565

1981 • CYNTHIA OZICK. The Shawl 5761983 • RAYMOND CARVER. Where I'm Calling From 5811986 • ANN BEATTIE. Janus 5951987 • SUSAN SONTAG. The Way We Live Now 6001987 • T IM O'BRIEN. The Things They Carried 6161989 • ALICE MUNRO. Meneseteung 6331990 • LORRIE MOORE. You're Ugly, Too 6521993 • T H O M JONES. I Want to Live! 6711994 • ALICE ELLIOTT DARK. In the Gloaming 688

1994 • CAROLYN FERRELL. Proper Library 7051995 • GISH JEN. Birthmates 720

1997 • PAM DURBAN. Soon 7351998 • ANNIE PROULX. The Half-Skinned Steer 754

Biographical Notes 769