100 years of The best American short stories / 
 One hundred years of The best American short stories 
edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. 
 - xxi, 723 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Best American short stories .
 - Best American series .
<br/><br/> Published for the centennial celebration of the annual, Best American short stories. 
<br/><br/>1915-1920. The gay old dog / Edna Ferber --<br/>1920-1930. Brothers / Sherwood Anderson; My old man / Ernest Hemingway; Haircut / Ring Lardner --<br/>1930-1940. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald; The cracked looking-glass / Katherine Anne Porter; That will be fine / William Faulkner --<br/>1940-1950. Those are as brothers / Nancy Hale; The whole world knows / Eudora Welty; The enormous radio / John Cheever --<br/>1950-1960. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen; Sonny's blues / James Baldwin; The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth --<br/>1960-1970. Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor; Pigeon feathers / John Updike; Will you please be quiet, please? / Raymond Carver; By the river / Joyce Carol Oates --<br/>1970-1980. The school / Donald Barthelme; The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin --<br/>1980-1990. Friends / Grace Paley; Harmony of the world / Charles Baxter; Lawns / Mona Simpson; Communist / Richard Ford; Helping / Robert Stone; Displacement / David Wong Louie --<br/>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 / Junot Díaz --<br/>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; Refresh, refresh / Benjamin Percy; Awaiting orders / Tobias Wolff --<br/>2010-2015. What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander; Diem perdidi / Julie Otsuka; The semplica-girl diaries / George Saunders; At the round Earth's imagined corners / Lauren Groff. 
<br/><br/> 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 -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780547485850 0547485859 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>American fiction--21st century.<br/>Cuentos americanos <br/>Cuentos estadounidenses --Colecciones  <br/>Cuentos de ciencia ficción estadounidenses --Colecciones  
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 648  / O58 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813