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The Best American Short Stories 1972

The Best American Short Stories 1972 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.[1]

The Best American Short Stories 1972
EditorMartha Foley
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Short Stories
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0395139509
Preceded byThe Best American Short Stories 1971 
Followed byThe Best American Short Stories 1973 

Background

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The 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

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Author Story Source
1972 M. F. Beal "Gold" New American Review
1972 Richard Brautigan "The World War I Los Angeles Airplane" New American Review
1972 Kelly Cherry "Covenant" Commentary
1972 Herbert Gold "A Death on the East Side" Esquire
1972 Joanne Greenberg "The Supremacy of the Hunza " The Transatlantic Review
1972 Mary Heath "The Breadman" The Virginia Quarterly Review
1972 Edward M. Holmes "Drums Again" Virginia Quarterly Review
1972 Mary Gray Hughes "The Judge" The Atlantic Monthly
1972 Ann Jones "In Black and White" Virginia Quarterly Review
1972 Ward Just "Three Washington Stories" The Atlantic Monthly
1972 Roberta Kalechofsky "His Day Out" The Western Humanities Review
1972 Rebecca Kavaler "The Further Adventures of Brunhild" The Yale Review
1972 John L'Heureux "Fox and Swan" The Transatlantic Review
1972 Ralph Maloney "Intimacy" The Atlantic Monthly
1972 Marvin Mandell "The Aesculapians" Epoch
1972 Cynthia Ozick "The Dock-Witch" Event
1972 Joe Ashby Porter "The Vacation" Occident
1972 Penelope Street "The Magic Apple" Occident
1972 Robert Penn Warren "Meet Me in the Green Glen" Partisan Review
1972 Theodore Weesner "Stealing Cars" Audience
1972 Jose Yglesias "The Guns in the Closet" The New Yorker

References

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  1. ^ Foley, Martha, ed. (January 1, 1972). The Best American Short Stories 1972. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395139509.
  2. ^ "Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73.
  3. ^ "The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough". Observer. 1999-05-10. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  6. ^ "'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.
  7. ^ "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.
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