Description
This years Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolvers selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation. I hope they will be yours. Barbara Kingsolver
Table of Contents
Contents Foreword ix Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver xiii
andrea barrett Servants of the Map 1 from Salmagundi
rick bass The Fireman 44 from The Kenyon Review
peter ho davies Think of England 62 from Ploughshares
claire davis Labors of the Heart 78 from Ploughshares
elizabeth graver The Mourning Door 95 from Ploughshares
ha jin After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town 105 from TriQuarterly
andrea lee Brothers and Sisters Around the World 138 from The New Yorker
rick moody Boys 146 from Elle
barbara klein moss Rug Weaver 152 from The Georgia Review
alice munro Post and Beam 176 from The New Yorker
peter orner The Raft 201 from The Atlantic Monthly
roy parvin Betty Hutton 205 from Five Points
nancy reisman Illumination 241 from Tin House
jess row The Secrets of Bats 256 from Ploughshares
annette sanford Nobody Listens When I Talk 271 from Descant
katherine shonk My Mothers Garden 275 from Tin House
marisa silver What I Saw from Where I Stood 296 from The New Yorker
trevanian The Apple Tree 311 from The Antioch Review
john updike Personal Archeology 326 from The New Yorker
dorothy west My Baby ...334 from Connecticut Review
Contributors Notes 345
100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2000 359
Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories 363