The Best American Short Stories 1996
First edition (publ. Houghton Mifflin)
The Best American Short Stories 1996, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor John Edgar Wideman.[1][2][3]
Short stories included[]
| Author | Story | Source |
| Alice Adams | "Complicities" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Rick Bass | "Fires" | Big Sky Journal |
| Jason Brown | "Driving the Heart" | Mississippi Review |
| Robert Olen Butler | "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" | The New Yorker |
| Lan Samantha Chang | "The Eve of the Spirit Festival" | Prairie Schooner |
| Dan Chaon | "Fitting Ends" | TriQuarterly |
| Peter Ho Davies | "The Silver Screen" | Harvard Review |
| Junot Diaz | "Ysrael" | Story |
| Stephen Dixon | "Sleep" | Harpers Magazine |
| Stuart Dybek | "Paper Lantern" | The New Yorker |
| "The Incredible Appearing Man" | Missouri Review | |
| Mary Gordon | "Intertextuality" | The Recorder |
| David Huddle | "Past My Future" | Story |
| "Bright Winter" | Grand Street | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | "In Roseau" | The New Yorker |
| William Henry Lewis | "Shades" | Ploughshares |
| William Lychack | "A Stand of Fables" | Quarterly West |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Ghost Girls" | American Short Fiction |
| "Sculpture I" | The New Yorker | |
| "Some Say the Word" | TriQuarterly | |
| "The Trip to Halawa Valley" | Shenandoah | |
| Akhil Sharma | "If You Sing Like That for Me" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jean Thompson | "All Shall Love Me and Despair" | Mid-American Review |
| Melanie Rae Thon | "Xmas, Jamaica Plain" | Ontario Review |
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