The Best American Short Stories 1970 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]
| Editor | Martha Foley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | The Best American Short Stories |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-0395109403 |
| Preceded by | The Best American Short Stories 1969 |
| Followed by | The Best American Short Stories 1971 |
Background
editThe series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction"[2] and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.[3][4][5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
Short stories included
edit| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Cady | "With No Breeze" | The Carolina Quarterly |
| Eldridge Cleaver | "The Flashlight" | Playboy |
| Robert Coover | "The Magic Poker" | Esquire |
| Olivia Davis | "The Other Child" | Prairie Schooner |
| Andre Dubus | "If They Knew Yvonne" | North American Review |
| John Bart Gerald | "Blood Letting" | The Atlantic |
| Alfred Gillespie | "Tonight at Nine Thirty-six" | Redbook |
| Ella Leffland | "The Forest" | Epoch |
| Jack Matthews | "Another Story" | The Sewanee Review |
| William Maxwell | "The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel" | The New Yorker |
| Wright Morris | "Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life all over again" | TriQuarterly |
| Paul Olsen | "The Flag Is Down" | The Southern Review |
| Cynthia Ozick | "Yiddish in America" | Commentary |
| Jules Siegel | "In the Land of the Morning Calm, Deja Vu" | Esquire |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | "The Key" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Stone | "Porque No Tiene, Porque Le Falta" | New American Review |
| Peter Taylor | "Daphne's Lover" | The Sewanee Review |
| Rosine Weisbrod | "The Ninth Cold Day" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
References
edit- ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1970). The Best American Short Stories 1970. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395109403.
- ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
- ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
- ^ Hempel, Amy (1986-02-09). "The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
- ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
- ^ "'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.
- ^ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2025-04-10.