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1978 edition. Language. English. Series. The Best American Short Stories. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature.
1842. " The Quadroons " is a short story written by American writer Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) and published in The Liberty Bell in 1842. The influential short story depicts the life and death of a mixed-race woman and her daughter in early nineteenth century America, a slave-owning society. Child originated the trope of the "tragic mulatta ...
ISBN. 9781328465825 (hardback) Preceded by. The Best American Short Stories 2018. Followed by. The Best American Short Stories 2020. The Best American Short Stories 2019 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, and guest editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Doerr. [1]
82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (⫽ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ ⫽; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
Of the writers in Salinger's generation, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike, attested that "the short stories of J. D. Salinger really opened my eyes as to how you can weave fiction out of a set of events that seem almost unconnected, or very lightly connected ... [Reading Salinger] stick[s] in my mind as really having moved me a step ...
American Short Fiction is a nationally circulated literary magazine founded in 1991 and based in Austin, Texas. Issued triannually, American Short Fiction publishes short fiction, novel excerpts, an occasional novella, and strives to publish work by both established and emerging contemporary authors. The magazine seeks out stories "that dive ...
The American folk musician Sufjan Stevens adapted the story into a song of the same title on his 2004 album Seven Swans. The song is written in the first person from the point of view of The Misfit. In May 2017, Deadline Hollywood reported that director John McNaughton would make a feature film adaptation of the story starring Michael Rooker ...