The Best American short stories, 1960-1979
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960-1979.
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| Volume | Location | Call Number | Status |
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| 1972 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1972 | Storage |
| 1975 | Cornwall Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SC Best 1975 | On Shelf |
| 1975 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1975 | Storage |
| 1970 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1970 | Storage |
| 1977 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1977 | Storage |
| 1978 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1978 | Storage |
| 1971 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1971 | Storage |
| 1965 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1965 | Storage |
| 1968 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1968 | Storage |
| 1976 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1976 | Storage |
| 1976 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.08 BEST 1976 | On Shelf |
| 1976 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.08 BEST 1976 | On Shelf |
| 1974 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1974 | Storage |
| 1969 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1969 | Storage |
| 1964 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1964 | Storage |
| 1979 | Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | SS BEST 1979 | On Shelf |
| 1966 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BES 1966 | Storage |
| 1967 | Newburgh Free Library - Storage Adult Fiction | SC BEST 1967 | Storage |
| 1962 | Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction | 813.08 BEST 1962 | On Shelf |
Table of Contents
1960: The Santa Ana / Sanora Babb
The day of the bullet / Stanley Ellin
Words words words / George P. Elliott
The man who looked like Jesus / Howard Fast
August / Mavis Gallant
An evening performance / George Garrett
The last running / John Graves
The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall
The purchase / Elizabeth Hardwick
The hunter / Lachlan MacDonald
The maid's shoes / Bernard Malamud
I don't need you any more / Arthur Miller
Unbelievable characters / Howard Nemerov
Hero / Phyllis Roberts
Defender of the faith / Philip Roth
The man who lost the sea / Theodore Sturgeon
A glance in the mirror / Harvey Swados
Who was Jesse's friend and protector? / Peter Taylor
Counterclockwise / Elisabeth Larsh Young.
1961: This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin
The listener / John Berry
Berceuse / Alfred Chester
The love and sorrow of Henry Pimber / W. H. Gass
The nickel misery of George Washington Carver Brown / Ivan Gold
A tale of inheritance / William Goyen
The self-made brain surgeon / Mark Harris
The vestibule / Kaatje Hurlbut
A girl for Walter / Theodore Jacobs
The yellow beret / Mary Lavin
Confusions / Jack Ludwig
Mexican hayride / Willard Marsh
First marriage / St. Clair McKelway
Society / Jeannie Olive
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen
Night in funland / William Peden
Entropy / Thomas Pynchon
The colleagues of Mr. Chips / Samuel Sandmel
Miss Leonora when last seen / Peter Taylor
The perils of flight / Ellington White.
1962: The light of the sea / Frieda Arkin
The sound of waves / Wayson S. Choy
Because I was flesh / Edward Dahlberg
Antaeus / Borden Deal
Criers and kibbitzers, kibbitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin
Wheat closed higher, cotton was mixed / Seymour Epstein
The old army game / George Garrett
The Pedersen kid / W. H. Gass
The model chapel / Sister Mary Gilbert
A day on ragged / Donald Hall
The last day / Henia Karmel-Wolfe
In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin
Hanging hair / Jack Thomas Leahy
"To hell the rabbis" / Ben Maddow
Deja vu / Miriam McKenzie
The prophecy / Arthur Miller
The vindication of Dr. Nestor / E. Lucas Myers
Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
The education of a queen / Thalia Selz
Love on a dark street / Irwin Shaw
Pigeon feathers / John Updike.
1963: Turn ever so quickly / U.S. Andersen
Sound of a drunken drummer / H.W. Blattner
The keyhole eye / John Stewart Carter
A vision of the world / John Cheever
A simple case / Cecil Dawkins
Chico / George Dickerson
The sound of young laughter / May Dikeman
I look out for Ed Wolfe / Stanley Elkin
Newfoundland night / Dave Godfrey
The pures / William J.J. Gordon
Aunt Mary / John Hermann
Beggarman, rich man, or thief / Katinka Loeser
The fireflies / St. Clair McKelway
The insufficient rope / Ursule Molinaro
The fine white mist of winter / J.C. Oates
Birds, clouds, frogs / R.C. Phelan
Some grist for Mervyn's mill / Mordecai Richler
What a world, said the bicycle rider / William Saroyan
The betrayal / Babette Sassoon
Noises in the city / Irwin Shaw
At the drugstore / Peter Taylor
The desert in the oasis / Niccolo Tucci
The picnickers / Jessamyn West.
1964: The broomstick on the porch / Frieda Arkin
Mr. Iscariot / Richard G. Brown
To a tenor dying old / John Stewart Carter
A story of love, etc. / Daniel Curley
The woman across the street / May Dikeman
A long day's dying / William Eastlake
Figure over the town / William Goyen
Black snowflakes / Paul Horgan
The pump / William Humphrey
Birthday party / Shirley Jackson
The power / Edith Konecky
Mule no. 095 / Kimon Lolos
The German refugee / Bernard Malamud
Sucker / Carson McCullers
Simple arithmetic / Virginia Moriconi
Upon the sweeping flood / Joyce Carol Oates
The names and faces of heroes / Reynolds Price
Waiting for Jim / Vera Randal
A story for Teddy / Harvey Swados
Have you seen Sukie? / Robert Penn Warren.
1965: Center of gravity / L. J. Amster
The returning / Daniel De Paola
The transient / Stanley Elkin
Opening day / Jack Gilchrist
The gesture / James W. Groshong
Sarah / Martin J. Hamer
Sherry / Maureen Howard
A family man / Donald Hutter
The month of his birthday / Henia Karmel-Wolfe
Heart of gold / Mary Lavin
A blue blonde in the sky over Pennsylvania / Dennis Lynds
The guest / Frederic Morton
The application / Jay Neugeboren
First views of the enemy / Joyce Carol Oates
The practice of an art / Leonard Wallace Robinson
A sacrifice / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Eskimo Pies / Roberrt Somerlott
The visit / Elizabeth Spencer
The tea time of stouthearted ladies / Jean Stafford
For I have wept / Gerald Stein
There / Peter Taylor
The last rite / Lee Yu-Hwa.
1966: The burning / Jack Cady
A mussel named Ecclesiastes / George Dickerson
The vicar-general and the wide night / Harris Downey
The academy / David Ely
Mr. Acarius / William Faulkner
The beach party / Shirley Ann Grau
Places we lost / Mary Hedin
Getting to Williamstown / Hugh Hood
The bus / Shirley Jackson
On the island / Josephine Jacobsen
The broken globe / Henry Kreisel
One summer / Mary Lavin
Mourning call / Curt Leviant
Further tales about men and women / William Maxwell
Parker's back / Flannery O'Connor
Pluto is the furthest planet / Abraham Rothberg
The bottomless well / Walter S. Terry
Autumn full of apples / Dan Wakefield
One night for several samurai / Joseph Whitehill
Dovisch in the wilderness / Herbert Wilner.
1967: The promise of heat / Ethan Ayer
A place not on the map / George Blake
The wild horses / Kay Boyle
Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver
One of the boys / H. E. Francis
Trepleff / MacDonald Harris
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant / Robert Hazel
Acme Rooms and sweet Marjorie Russell / Hugh Allyn Hunt
The heroic journey / Lawrence Lee
Search for a future / Arthur Miller
The apartment hunter / Brian Moore
Andrew / Berry Morgan
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Song of the simidor / Donald Radcliffe
The surveyor / Henry Roth
Longing for America / David Rubin
The accident / Jesse Stuart
The kid who fractioned / Carol Sturm
The big brown trout / Robert Travers
House of the Blues / William Wiser.
1968: Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin
Greased Samba / John Deck
An American student in Paris / James T. Farrell
An old man and his hat / George H. Freitag
Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me? / Herb Gardner
In the heart of the heart of the country / William H. Gass
The rotifer / Mary Ladd Gavell
The heart of this or that man / Donald Gropman
The snooker shark / William Harrison
The only people / Judith Higgins
The tenant / Helen Hudson
In shock / Leo E. Litwak
The sons of Martha / Richard McKenna
The preacher and Margery Scott / William Moseley
Celtic twilight / Joanna Ostrow
Early morning, lonely ride / Nancy Huddleston Parker
Bleat Blodgette / John Phillips
The ambassador / Lawrence P. Spingarn
The games that we played / Winston Weathers
Dried rose petals in a silver bowl / Janet Bruce.
1969: The eldest child / Maeve Brennan
Play like I'm sheriff / Jack Cady
Murphy's xmas / Mark Costello
Walking wounded / John Bart Gerald
The foreigner in the blood / Mary Gray Hughes
The boy in the green hat / Norma Klein
Happiness / Mary Lavin
The boat / Alistair MacLeod
The day the flowers came / David Madden
Pictures of Fidelman / Bernard Malamud
Porkchops with whiskey and ice cream / Matthew W. McGregor
Gold coast / James Alan McPherson
The inheritance on Emmy One Horse / John R. Milton
By the river / Joyce Carol Oates
The visitation / Nancy Pelletier Pansing
Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams / Sylvia Plath
Paper poppy / Miriam Rugel
The tea bowl of Ninsei Nomura / Margaret Shipley
The colony / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Benjamen burning / Joyce Madelon Winslow.
1970: With no breeze / Jack Cady
The flashlight
Eldridge Cleaver
The magic poker / Robert Coover
The other child / Olivia Davis
If they knew Yvonne / Andre Dubus
Blood letting / John Bart Gerald
Tonight at nine thirty-six / Alfred Gillespie
The forest / Ella Leffland
Another story / Jack Matthews
The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel / William Maxwell
Green grass, blue sky, white house / Wright Morris
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates
The flag is down / Paul Olsen
Yiddish in America / Cynthia Ozick
In the land of the morning calm, deja vu / Jules Siegel
The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer
Porque no tiene, porque le falta / Robert Stone
Daphne's lover / Peter Taylor
The ninth cold day / Rosine Weisbrod
1971: With Che in New Hampshire / Russell Banks
Dotson Gerber resurrected / Hal Bennett
The widow, bereft / James Blake
I take care of things / Jack Cady
Barbed wire / Robert Canzoneri
The chicken which became a rat / Albert Drake
The dancing boy / William Eastlake
Pain was my portion / Beth Harvor
No trace / David Madden
Diesel / Don Mitchell
The decline and fall of Officer Fergerson / Marion Montgomery
Magic / Wright Morris
The gift bearer / Philip F. O'Connor
Requa I / Tillie Olsen
Shirt talk / Ivan Prashker
In late youth / Norman Rush
The somebody / Danny Santiago
Xavier Fereira's unfinished book: chapter one / Jonathan Strong
The Klausners / Leonard Tushnet
Bloodflowers / W. D. Valgardson
The suitor / L. Woiwode.
1972: Gold / M. F. Beal
The World War I Los Angeles Airplane / Richard Brautigan
Convenant / Kelly Cherry
A death on the east side / Herbert Gold
the supremacy of the Hunza / Joanne Greenberg
The breadman / mary Heath
Drums again / Edward M. Holmes
the judge / Mary Gray Hughes
In black and white / Ann Jones
Three Washington stories / Ward Just
His day out / Roberta Kalechofsky
The further adventures of Brunhild / Rebecca Kavaler
Fox and swan / John L'Heureux
Intimacy / Ralph Malony
The Aesculapians / marvin Mandell
The dock-witch / Cynthia Ozick
The vacation / Joe Ashby Porter
The magic apple / Penelope Street
Meet me in the green glen / Robert Penn Waren
Stealing cars / Theodore Weesner
The guns in the closet / Joe Yglesias.
1973: A city of churches / Donald Barthelme
The slightest distance / Henry Bromell
The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever
Cambridge is sinking! / John J. Clayton
Old men dream dreams, young men see visions / John William Corrington
Robot / Guy Davenport
The death of sun / William Eastlake
The real meaning of the Faust legend / Alvin Greenberg
In the words of / Julie Hayden
The habits of animals: the progress of the seasons / George V. Higgins
Burns / Ward Just
Going home / James S. Kenary
The way we went / Wallace E. Knight. The broken wings / Konstantinos Lardas
The silver bullet / James Alan McPherson
God's wrath / Bernard Malamud
Silkie / Joyce Carol Oates
Mothers / Sylvia Plath
Come away, oh human child / Erik Sandberg - Diment
Country of the painted freaks / David Shetzline
Happy August the 10th / Tennessee Williams.
1974: The deserter / Agnes Boyer
Beginnings / Jerry Bumpus
A summer in Puerto Rico / Eleanor Clark
The party / Pat M. Esslinger-Carr Mansion, magic, and miracle / Lewis B. Horne
Down the American River / Rose Graubart Ignatow
Opening the door on Sixty-second Street / Maxine Kumin
Tom / Mary Levin
A family affair / John L'Heureux
The chamber music evening / Phillip Lopate
The tide and Isaac Bates / Stephen Minot
Letter from Sakaye / Dog in the manger / Michael Rothschild
Calloway's climb / Peter L. Sandberg
Isn't today the day? / William Saroyan
The gray / Philip H. Schneider
Old Vemish / Barry Targan
Son / John Updike
Honeymoon / Arturo Vivante
The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff / Alice Walker.
1975: The lie / Russell Banks
The school / Donald Barthelme
How to win / Rosellen Brown
Desert matinee / Jerry Bumpus
Bambi meets the Furies / Frederick Busch
Waiting for astronauts / Nacy Chaikin
Paths unto the dead / Mary Clearman
Tyranny / Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
Cadence / Andre Dubus
Big Boy / Jesse Hill Ford
The spirit in me / William Hoffman
The analyst / Evan Hunter
How Jerem came home / Paul Kaser
The lost salt gift of blood / Alistair MacLeod
The burial / Jack Matthews
The Howard Parker Montcrief hoax / Eugene McNamara
Night and day at Panacea / Reynolds Price
Polonaise / Abraham Rothberg - - Lullaby / Leslie Silko
The who lived / Barry Targan
The American sickness / Jose Yglesias.
1976: Roses, rhododendron / Alice Adams
Terminal procedure / M. Pabst Battin
The boy who was Astrid's mother / Mae Seidman Briskin
Beautiful, helpless animals / Nancy Chaikin
The actes and documents / John William Corrington
A chronicle of love / H. E. Francis
Pontius Pilate / John Hagge
Dietz at war / Ward Just
John Henry's home / John McCluskey
Grubbing for roots / Steven Minot
Looking into nothing / Kent Nelson
A mercenary / Cynthia Ozick
Broad day / Reynolds Price
Wondermonger / Michael Rothschild
Surviving adverse seasons / Barry Targan
The hand of Emmagene / Peter Taylor
The man who loved extinct mammals / John Updike.
1977: The trouble with being food / Frederick Busch
Tarzan meets the department head / Price Caldwell
Falconer / John Cheever
At peace / Ann Copeland
Pleadings / John William Corrington
Growing up in no time / Philip Damon
The Steinway quintet / Leslie Epstein
The lover / Eugene K. Garber
Look at a teacup / Patricia Hampl
Rider / Baine Kerr
A questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon / Jack Matthews
A passion for history / Stephen Minot
The woman who thought like a man / Charles Newman
Gay / Joyce Carol Oates
Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien
The Chink and the Clock People / Tom Robbins
A Fresno fable / William Saroyan
Breed / John Sayles
Your place is empty / Anne Tyler
Anthropology: what is lost in rotation / William S. Wilson.
1978: Return of service
Two scenes
Good loser
Conventional wisdom
Skatrs on wood
Redemption
Schreuderspitze
In Miami last winter
By the yellow lake
Windmill man
Psychopolis
Translation
Main Street morning
Staus
Murphy Jones, Pearblossom, California
Rough strife
Telling the bees
Blacktop champion of Ickey Honey
Decades
In the Miro district.
1979: New music
Silver dish
The eye
Verona: a young girl speaks
Wedding week
Falling off the scaffold
Middle place
Short walk into afternoon
Missing person
Some Manhattan in New England
Home is the hero
Seasons
Spelling
Exile in the east
Something that happened
Finisterre
Trip in a summer dress
Plaisir d'amour
Party in Miami beach
Shadrach
Lingering death
Paper covers rock.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960-1979.
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General Note
Title varies: 1915-41: The Best short stories ; 1942- : The Best American short stories...
General Note
Imprint varies: 1915-41: Boston : Small, Maynard & Company ; 1926-32: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company ; 1933- : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company.
General Note
Editors: 1915-41, E.J. O'Brien; 1942-1977, Martha Foley; 1978, Ted Solotaroff; 1979, Joyce Carol Oates; 1980, Stanley Elkin; 1981, Hortense Calisher; 1982, John Gardner; 1983, Anne Tyler; 1984, John Updike; 1985, Gail Godwin; 1986, Raymond Carver; 1987, Ann Beattie; 1988, Mark Helprin; 1989, Margaret Atwood; 1990, Richard Ford; 1991, Alice Adams.
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Series editors: 1978-1990, Shannon Ravenel; 1991, Katrina Kenison.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Brien, E. J. 1. (19601979). The Best American short stories, 1960-1979 . Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. 19601979. The Best American Short Stories, 1960-1979. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. The Best American Short Stories, 1960-1979 Houghton Mifflin Company, 19601979.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Edward J. 1890-1941. The Best American Short Stories, 1960-1979 Houghton Mifflin Company, 19601979.
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