The Best American Short Stories 1990

The Best American Short Stories 1990

Editor	Shannon Ravenel and Richard Ford
Language	English
Series	The Best American Short Stories
Published	1990
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	0395515963
Preceded by	The Best American Short Stories 1989
Followed by	The Best American Short Stories 1991

The Best American Short Stories 1990, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Shannon Ravenel and by guest editor Richard Ford.^[1]

Reception

In a review appearing in Kirkus Reviews the volume was said to include a "fair sampling of what's happening in American fiction today," while also criticizing the editorial choice of stories appearing elsewhere in the same year and the inclusion of two stories each by two writers.^[2] In the Publishers' Weekly review it was noted that "the volume's prevailing themes [are] of modern angst."^[3]

Short stories included

Author	Story	Source
Edward Allen	"River of Toys"	Southwest Review
Richard Bausch	"The Fireman's Wife"	The Atlantic Monthly
Richard Bausch	"A Kind of Simpe, Happy Grace"	Wigwag
Madison Smartt Bell	"Finding Natasha"	Antaeus
C. S. Godshalk	"The Wizard"	The AGNI Review
Patricia Henley	"The Secret of Cartwheels"	The Atlantic Monthly
Pam Houston	"How to Talk to a Hunter"	Quarterly West
Siri Hustvedt	"Mr. Morning"	The Ontario Review
Denis Johnson	"Car-Crash While Hitchhiking"	The Paris Review
Dennis McFarland	"Nothing to Ask For"	The New Yorker
Steven Millhauser	"Eisenheim the Illusionist"	Esquire
Lorrie Moore	"You're Ugly, Too"	The New Yorker
Alice Munro	"Differently"	The New Yorker
Alice Munro	"Wigtime"	The New Yorker
Padgett Powell	"Typical"	Grand Street
Lore Segal	"The Reverse Bug"	The New Yorker
Elizabeth Tallent	"Prowler"	The New Yorker
Christopher Tilghman	"In a Father's Place"	Ploughshares
Joan Wickersham	"Commuter Marriage"	The Hudson Review
Joy Williams	"The Little Winter"	Granta

References

1. Ravenel, Shannon and Richard Ford (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1990, New York, 1990.
2. "THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1990". kirkusreviews.com. October 15, 1990. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
3. "The Best American Short Stories 1990". www.publishersweekly.com. October 31, 1990. Retrieved September 8, 2024.

External links

• Best American Short Stories Archived 2010-07-04 at the Wayback Machine