The Resource 100 years of the best American short stories, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

100 years of the best American short stories, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

Label
100 years of the best American short stories
Title
100 years of the best American short stories
Statement of responsibility
edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
Title variation
One hundred years of the best American short stories
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time
Member of
Cataloging source
YDXCP
Dewey number
813/.0108
Index
no index present
Literary form
short stories
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1887-1968
  • 1876-1941
  • 1899-1961
  • 1885-1933
  • 1896-1940
  • 1890-1980
  • 1897-1962
  • 1908-1988
  • 1909-2001
  • 1924-1987
  • 1938-1988
  • 1938-
  • 1930-1995
  • 1947-
  • 1944-
  • 1937-2015
  • 1954-2018
  • 1931-
  • 1954-
  • 1971-
  • 1968-
  • 1966-
  • 1945-
  • 1962-
  • 1958-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Moore, Lorrie
  • Pitlor, Heidi
  • Ferber, Edna
  • Anderson, Sherwood
  • Hemingway, Ernest
  • Lardner, Ring
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • Porter, Katherine Anne
  • Faulkner, William
  • Hale, Nancy
  • Welty, Eudora
  • Cheever, John
  • Olsen, Tillie
  • Baldwin, James
  • Roth, Philip
  • O'Connor, Flannery
  • Updike, John
  • Carver, Raymond
  • Oates, Joyce Carol
  • Barthelme, Donald
  • Elkin, Stanley
  • Paley, Grace
  • Baxter, Charles
  • Simpson, Mona
  • Ford, Richard
  • Stone, Robert
  • Louie, David Wong
  • Munro, Alice
  • Gaitskill, Mary
  • Kincaid, Jamaica
  • Sharma, Akhil
  • Díaz, Junot
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa
  • Packer, ZZ
  • Alexie, Sherman
  • Jones, Edward P
  • Percy, Benjamin
  • Wolff, Tobias
  • Englander, Nathan
  • Otsuka, Julie
  • Saunders, George
  • Groff, Lauren
Series statement
Best American short stories
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Short stories, American
  • American fiction
  • American fiction
Label
100 years of the best American short stories, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Haircut
  • Ring Lardner
  • 1930-1940.
  • Babylon revisited
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald;
  • The cracked looking-glass
  • Katherine Anne Porter;
  • That will be fine
  • William Faulkner
  • 1940-1950.
  • 1915-1920.
  • Those are as brothers /
  • Nancy Hale;
  • The whole world knows
  • Eudora Welty;
  • The enormous radio
  • John Cheever
  • 1950-1960.
  • I stand here ironing
  • Tillie Olsen;
  • Sonny's blues
  • The gay old dog
  • James Baldwin;
  • The conversion of the Jews
  • Philip Roth
  • 1960-1970.
  • Everything that rises must converge
  • Flannery O'Connor;
  • Pigeon feathers
  • John Updike;
  • Will you please be quiet, please?
  • Raymond Carver;
  • Edna Ferber
  • By the river
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1970-1980.
  • The school
  • Donald Barthelme;
  • The conventional wisdom
  • Stanley Elkin
  • 1980-1990.
  • Friends
  • Grace Paley;
  • 1920-1930.
  • Harmony of the world
  • Charles Baxter;
  • Lawns
  • Mona Simpson;
  • Communist
  • Richard Ford;
  • Helping
  • Robert Stone;
  • Displacement
  • David Wong Louie
  • Brothers
  • 1990-2000.
  • Friend of my youth
  • Alice Munro;
  • The girl on the plane
  • Mary Gaitskill;
  • Xuela
  • Jamaica Kincaid;
  • If you sing like that for me
  • Akhil Sharma;
  • Fiesta, 1980
  • Sherwood Anderson;
  • Junot Díaz
  • 2000-2010.
  • The third and final continent
  • Jhumpa Lahiri;
  • Brownies
  • ZZ Packer;
  • What you pawn I will redeem
  • Sherman Alexie;
  • Old boys, old girls
  • Edward P. Jones;
  • My old man
  • Refresh, refresh
  • Benjamin Percy;
  • Awaiting orders
  • Tobias Wolff
  • 2010-2015.
  • What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
  • Nathan Englander;
  • Diem perdidi
  • Julie Otsuka;
  • The semplica-girl diaries
  • Ernest Hemingway;
  • George Saunders;
  • At the round Earth's imagined corners
  • Lauren Groff
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxi, 723 pages
Isbn
9780547485850
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)898052979
  • 996374
  • (OCoLC)ocn898052979
Label
100 years of the best American short stories, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
Publication
Copyright
Note
Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Haircut
  • Ring Lardner
  • 1930-1940.
  • Babylon revisited
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald;
  • The cracked looking-glass
  • Katherine Anne Porter;
  • That will be fine
  • William Faulkner
  • 1940-1950.
  • 1915-1920.
  • Those are as brothers /
  • Nancy Hale;
  • The whole world knows
  • Eudora Welty;
  • The enormous radio
  • John Cheever
  • 1950-1960.
  • I stand here ironing
  • Tillie Olsen;
  • Sonny's blues
  • The gay old dog
  • James Baldwin;
  • The conversion of the Jews
  • Philip Roth
  • 1960-1970.
  • Everything that rises must converge
  • Flannery O'Connor;
  • Pigeon feathers
  • John Updike;
  • Will you please be quiet, please?
  • Raymond Carver;
  • Edna Ferber
  • By the river
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1970-1980.
  • The school
  • Donald Barthelme;
  • The conventional wisdom
  • Stanley Elkin
  • 1980-1990.
  • Friends
  • Grace Paley;
  • 1920-1930.
  • Harmony of the world
  • Charles Baxter;
  • Lawns
  • Mona Simpson;
  • Communist
  • Richard Ford;
  • Helping
  • Robert Stone;
  • Displacement
  • David Wong Louie
  • Brothers
  • 1990-2000.
  • Friend of my youth
  • Alice Munro;
  • The girl on the plane
  • Mary Gaitskill;
  • Xuela
  • Jamaica Kincaid;
  • If you sing like that for me
  • Akhil Sharma;
  • Fiesta, 1980
  • Sherwood Anderson;
  • Junot Díaz
  • 2000-2010.
  • The third and final continent
  • Jhumpa Lahiri;
  • Brownies
  • ZZ Packer;
  • What you pawn I will redeem
  • Sherman Alexie;
  • Old boys, old girls
  • Edward P. Jones;
  • My old man
  • Refresh, refresh
  • Benjamin Percy;
  • Awaiting orders
  • Tobias Wolff
  • 2010-2015.
  • What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
  • Nathan Englander;
  • Diem perdidi
  • Julie Otsuka;
  • The semplica-girl diaries
  • Ernest Hemingway;
  • George Saunders;
  • At the round Earth's imagined corners
  • Lauren Groff
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xxi, 723 pages
Isbn
9780547485850
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)898052979
  • 996374
  • (OCoLC)ocn898052979

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