100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

2015 short story collection edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor February 2026 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories "100 Years of the Best American Short Stories" book cover.jpg Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor English The Best American Short Stories Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Print 752 978-0547485850 July 13, 2015 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. Containing 40 stories spanning 100 years of publication, the volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.October 28, 2015 There's Much to Love About '100 Years of the Best American Short Stories' » PopMatters https://www.popmatters.com/100-years-of-the-best-american-short-stories-lorrie-moore-editor-heidi-pitl-2495474324.html April 10, 2025 www.popmatters.com en-US Background The book is a centennial anniversary of The Best American Short Stories series which began in 1915. The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction""Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73. and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature, curated by well-known guest editors."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, August 3, 1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.Hempel Amy February 9, 1986 The Best American Short Stories 1985 : edited by Gail Godwin with Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95, hardcover; $8.95, paperback; 300 pp.) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-09-bk-5777-story.html April 8, 2025 Los Angeles Times en-USMay 10, 1999 Best Stories of the Century? Not Quite, but Close Enough https://observer.com/1999/05/best-stories-of-the-century-not-quite-but-close-enough/ April 10, 2025 Observer en-US 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."'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. Critical reception Kirkus Reviews said the anthology was "packed with some of the best short fiction ever committed to print" and concluded that it was "a collection of uncommonly high value."https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lorrie-moore/100-years-of-the-best-american-short-stories/ 100 YEARS OF THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES Kirkus Reviews en Los Angeles Times lamented that Moore, "who made the final selections, did not include any statements about her choices; she instead penned a short story about being an author" and considered the series to be "both essential and problematic."October 9, 2015 Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-best-short-stories-20151011-story.html April 10, 2025 Los Angeles Times en-US Chicago Tribune lamented that the anthology "grievously shortchanges the first 50 years" by representing "each pre-1960 decade" with only a few stories each while packing the new millennium with ten stories.Gentry Amy October 15, 2015 Review: '100 Years of the Best American Short Stories' https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/10/15/review-100-years-of-the-best-american-short-stories/ April 10, 2025 Chicago Tribune en-US Short stories included YearAuthorStorySource1915–19201917Edna Ferber"The Gay Old Dog"The Metropolitan Magazine1920–19301921Sherwood Anderson"Brothers"The Bookman Magazine1923Ernest Hemingway"My Old Man"Three Stories and Ten Poems1925Ring Lardner"Haircut"Liberty Magazine1930–19401931F. Scott Fitzgerald"Babylon Revisited"The Saturday Evening Post1933Katherine Anne Porter"The Cracked Looking-Glass"Scribner's Magazine1936William Faulkner"That Will Be Fine"The American Mercury1940–19501942Nancy Hale"Those Are As Brothers"Mademoiselle1948Eudora Welty"The Whole World Knows"Harper's Bazaar1948John Cheever"The Enormous Radio"The New Yorker1950–19601957Tillie Olsen"I Stand Here Ironing"The Pacific Spectator1958James Baldwin"Sonny's Blues"Partisan Review1959Philip Roth"The Conversion of the Jews"The Paris Review1960–19701962Flannery O'Connor"Everything That Rises Must Converge"New World Writing1962John Updike"Pigeon Feathers"The New Yorker1967Raymond Carver"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"December1969Joyce Carol Oates"By The River"December1970–19801975Donald Barthelme"The School"The New Yorker1978Stanley Elkin"The Conventional Wisdom"American Review1980–19901980Grace Paley"Friends"The New Yorker1982Charles Baxter"Harmony of the World"The Michigan Quarterly Review1986Mona Simpson"Lawns"The Iowa Review1986Richard Ford"Communist"Antaeus1988Robert Stone"Helping"The New Yorker1989David Wong Louie"Displacement"Ploughshares1990–20001991Alice Munro"Friend of My Youth"The New Yorker1993Mary Gaitskill"The Girl on the Plane"Mirabella1995Jamaica Kincaid"Xuela"The New Yorker1996Akhil Sharma"If You Sing Like That for Me"The Atlantic1997Junot Díaz"Fiesta, 1980"Story2000–20102000Jhumpa Lahiri"The Third and Final Continent"The New Yorker2000ZZ Packer"Brownies"Harper's Magazine2004Sherman Alexie"What You Pawn I Will Redeem"The New Yorker2005Edward P. Jones"Old Boys, Old Girls"The New Yorker2006Benjamin Percy"Refresh, Refresh"The Paris Review2006Tobias Wolff"Awaiting Orders"The New Yorker2010–20152012Nathan Englander"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank"The New Yorker2012Julie Otsuka"Diem Perdidi"Granta2013George Saunders"The Semplica-Girl Diaries"The New Yorker2014Lauren Groff"At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners"Five Points References Category:2015 short story collections Category:The Best American Short Stories Category:Houghton Mifflin books