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- The Ex-Files: New Stories About Old Flames ed. Blake Ferris (Context Books 1-893-95602-4, Feb 2000, $15.00, 400pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Western ed. F. E. S. Finn (London: J. Murray 0719536677, 1980, 119pp, pb); The short story series.
- The Best American Short Stories 1942 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1942, hc); [DKL]
- 1 • Biceps • Nelson Algren • ss The Southern Review Spr ’41
- 19 • The Valet of the Splendide • Ludwig Bemelmans • ss New Yorker Oct 25 ’41
- 28 • 5135 Kensington: August, 1903 • Sally Benson • ss New Yorker Aug 23 ’41
- 41 • Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart • Kay Boyle • ss New Yorker Oct 4 ’41
- 50 • For Each of Us • Jack Y. Bryan • ss American Prefaces Spr ’41
- 67 • The Portable Phonograph • Walter Van Tilburg Clark • ss The Yale Review Spr ’41
- 75 • That Frozen Hour • David Cornel De Jong • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep 1 ’41
- 93 • Prairies • Boyce Eakin • ss New Mexico Quarterly Review Aug ’41
- 105 • Tell Him I Waited • Morton Fineman • ss Story Nov-Dec ’41
- 116 • A Loaf of Bread • Robert Gibbons • ss The New Republic Dec 8 ’41
- 129 • Those Are As Brothers • Nancy Hale • ss Mademoiselle May ’41
- 141 • That Greek Dog • MacKinlay Kantor • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 9 ’41
- 156 • Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] • Eric Knight • ss Story Mar-Apr ’41
- 174 • Death of a Country Doctor • Mary Medearis • nv Story, 1941
- 201 • Caput Mortum • Edita Morris • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’41
- 210 • My Friend Flicka • Mary O’Hara • ss Story Jan-Feb ’41
- 231 • The Green Village • Margaret Rhodes Peattie • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 31 ’41
- 245 • The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter • William Saroyan • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’41
- 250 • Sacrificce of Isaac • Michael Seide • ss American Prefaces Sum ’41
- 259 • The Real Viennese Schmalz • Budd Wilson Schulberg • ss Esquire Sep ’41
- 269 • Search Through the Streets of the City • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Aug 2 ’41
- 279 • In the Twilight • Wallace Stegner • ss Mademoiselle Nov ’41
- 291 • How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Aug ’41
- 303 • The Storm • Jesse Stuart • ss The Household Magazine, 1941
- 313 • The Fancy Woman • Peter Taylor • nv The Southern Review Sum ’41
- 343 • My Pigeon Pair • Dorothy Thomas • ss Harper’s May ’41
- 355 • You Could Look It Up • James Thurber • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 5 ’41
- 372 • The Bees • Joan Vatsek • ss Story Mar-Apr ’41
- 385 • At Sallygap • Mary Lavin • nv Atlantic Monthly Oct ’41
- 401 • Hunger • Marjorie Worthington • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep 1 ’41
- The Best American Short Stories 1943 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1943, 428pp, hc); [DKL]
- 1 • This Healthy Life • Vicki Baum • ss Story Sep-Oct ’42
- 10 • Boundary Line • Warren Beck • ss Rocky Mountain Review Win ’42
- 23 • Frenchman’s Ship • Kay Boyle • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21 ’42
- 41 • Pleasures of Solitude • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jan 24 ’42
- 47 • The Dream of Angelo Zara • Guido D’Agostino • ss Story Sep-Oct ’42
- 56 • Samuel Blane • Murray Dyer • ss Harper’s Sep ’42
- 70 • The Bear • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 9 ’42
- 87 • Beginning of Wisdom • Rachel Field • ss The American Magazine Mar ’42
- 105 • A Partnership with Death • Vardis Fisher • ss Rocky Mountain Review Spr-Sum ’42
- 115 • What Do You See, Dear Enid? • Grace Flandrau • ss New Yorker Sep 26 ’42
- 122 • Time’s End • Robert Gibbons • ss Atlantic Monthly Jan ’42
- 135 • Threnody for Stelios • Peter Gray • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Win ’42
- 144 • Who Lived and Died Believing • Nancy Hale • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep ’42
- 166 • The Peach Stone • Paul Horgan • ss The Yale Review Sum ’42
- 187 • The Enchanted • Laurette MacDuffie Knight • ss Story Mar-Apr ’42
- 218 • The Little Black Boys • Clara Laidlaw • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’42
- 232 • Love Is for Lovers • Mary Lavin • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jan ’42
- 256 • Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap • Edita Morris • ss Harper’s Bazaar Dec ’42
- 271 • Knife-Like, Flower Like, Like Nothing at All in the World • William Saroyan • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’42
- 279 • An Argument in 1934 • Delmore Schwartz • ss The Kenyon Review Win ’42
- 292 • Preach on the Dusty Roads • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Aug 22 ’42
- 301 • My Public • Margaret Shedd • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep ’42
- 310 • Chip Off the Old Block • Wallace Stegner • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Aut ’42
- 327 • Death and My Uncle Felix • Alison Stuart • ss Mademoiselle Oct ’42
- 337 • Dawn of Remembered Spring • Jesse Stuart • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’42
- 345 • The Women • Richard Sullivan • ss Accent Aut ’42
- 360 • The Catbird Seat • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Nov 14 ’42
- 370 • Homecoming • Jessie Treichler • ss The Antioch Review Sum ’42
- 391 • Philadelphia Express • Jerome Weidman • ss New Yorker Oct 10 ’42
- 400 • Asphodel • Eudora Welty • ss The Yale Review Aut ’42
- The Best American Short Stories 1944 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1944, hc); [DKL]
- 1 • The White Boat • Sidney Alexander • ss Accent Sum ’43
- 17 • Señor Payroll • William E. Barrett • ss The Southwest Review Aut ’43
- 21 • Notes of a Dangling Man • Saul Bellow • ss The Partisan Review Sep-Oct ’43
- 41 • The Knot Hole • Dorothy Canfield • ss The Yale Review Spr ’43
- 62 • Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart • Elizabeth Eastman • ss Harper’s Bazaar Aug ’43
- 81 • Good Days and the Bad • Helen Eustis • ss Story Nov-Dec ’43
- 101 • The Fishermen of Patzcuaro • William Fifield • ss Story Jan-Feb ’43
- 117 • Strike up a Stirring Music • Berry Fleming • ss The Yale Review Sum ’43
- 125 • More Like a Coffin • Hazel Hawthorne • vi New Yorker Jun 26 ’43
- 128 • A Local Skirmish • Noel Houston • ss New Yorker Sep 11 ’43
- 135 • Come Dance with Me in Ireland • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker May 15 ’43
- 141 • The Rented Room • Josephine W. Johnson • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’43
- 164 • The Mohammedans • H. J. Kaplan • nv The Partisan Review May-Jun ’43
- 190 • The S.S. Libertad • Eyre de Lanux • ss Tomorrow Aug ’43
- 197 • The Female of the Fruit Fly • William March • ss Mademoiselle May ’43
- 205 • The Ballad of the Sad Café • Carson McCullers • na Harper’s Bazaar Aug ’43
- 265 • Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare • Astrid Meighan • ss New Yorker Jan 2 ’43
- 273 • Exiles from the Creuse • Mary Mian • ss New Yorker Dec 25 ’43
- 280 • Heart of Marzipan • Edita Morris • ss Mademoiselle Oct ’43
- 285 • “That in Aleppo Once...” • Vladimir Nabokov • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’43
- 295 • Neither Here Nor There • Ruth Portugal • ss Harper’s Bazaar Sep ’43
- 309 • Lions, Harts, Leaping Does • J. F. Powers • ss Accent Aut ’43
- 332 • All Souls’ • Gladys Schmitt • ss Colliers Nov 6 ’43
- 345 • The Veterans Reflect • Irwin Shaw • ss Accent Win ’43
- 358 • A Return • George Stiles • ss The Kenyon Review Win ’43
- 378 • My Russian Cap • Leon Z. Surmelian • ss New Mexico Quarterly Review Sum ’43
- 385 • Of This Time, of That Place • Lionel Trilling • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’43
- 423 • An Afternoon • Elizabeth Warner • ss New Yorker Jul 31 ’43
- 430 • The Illumination • Jessamyn West • ss Harper’s Bazaar Oct ’43
- 443 • God’s Agents Have Beards • Emmanuel Winters • ss Harper’s Bazaar Aug ’43
- The Best American Short Stories 1945 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1945, hc); [DKL]
- 1 • How the Devil Came Down Division Street • Nelson Algren • ss Harper’s Bazaar May ’44
- 8 • The First Fish • Warren Beck • ss Story Mar-Apr ’44
- 19 • Crime Passionnel • Louis Bromfield • ss New Yorker Mar 25 ’44
- 30 • My Brother Osong’s Career in Politics • Carlos Bulosan • ss New Yorker Mar ’44
- 38 • Harvest • Mary Deasy • ss The American Mercury Nov ’44
- 49 • Burial in the Desert • Edward Fenton • ss Harper’s Bazaar Oct ’44
- 64 • The Light of Morning • Morton Fineman • ss Mademoiselle Jan ’44
- 71 • Understand What I Mean? • Bill Gerry • ss The Yale Review Aut ’44
- 82 • The Test • Brendan Gill • ss Good Housekeeping Jun ’44
- 90 • Be Heavy • Richard Hagopian • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’44
- 99 • It Never Happened • Emily Hahn • ss New Yorker Jun 24 ’44
- 109 • The Czech Dog • W. G. Hardy • ss Tomorrow, 1944
- 115 • Fever Flower • Josephine Johnson • ss Harper’s Bazaar Mar ’44
- 123 • Poor Everybody • Robert McLaughlin • ss New Yorker Aug 26 ’44
- 133 • Don’t Scrub Off These Names • John McNulty • ss New Yorker Sep 16 ’44
- 143 • The Animals’ Fair • Warren Miller • ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb ’44
- 154 • Papa, Mama and Economics • George Panetta • ss Mademoiselle Jan ’44
- 164 • On the Way to Somewhere Else • Joseph Stanley Pennell • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1944
- 170 • Call a Solemn Assembly • Ruth Portugal • ss Harper’s Bazaar Aug ’44
- 180 • The Owl That Kept Winking • Theodore Pratt • ss Esquire Jun ’44
- 188 • The Hand That Fed Me • Isaac Rosenfeld • ss The Partisan Review Win ’44
- 205 • A War Marriage • Donna Rowell • ss Story, 1944
- 222 • The Mourners • Gladys Schmitt • ss Harper’s Bazaar, 1944
- 238 • Gunners’ Passage • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Jul 22 ’44
- 257 • The Wedding: Beacon Hill • Jean Stafford • ss Harper’s Bazaar Aug ’44
- 272 • Alabama Sketches • Ruby Pickens Tartt • ss The Southwest Review, 1944
- 283 • Rain in the Heart • Peter Taylor • ss The Sewanee Review Jan ’44
- 303 • Cass Mastern’s Wedding Ring • Robert Penn Warren • nv The Partisan Review Fll ’44
- 344 • First Day Finish • Jessamyn West • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’44
- 356 • This Is a Love Story • Leane Zugsmith • ss New Yorker Jan 22 ’44
- 362 • A Ship to Tarshish • William Zukerman • ss Prairie Schooner Sum ’44
- The Best American Short Stories 1946 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1946, hc); [DKL]
- The Best American Short Stories 1947 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1947, hc); [DKL]
- The Best American Short Stories 1948 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1948, 370pp, hc)
- vii • Foreword • Martha Foley • fw
- 1 • Part of the Act • Sidney Alexander • ss Story Jan-Feb ’47
- 20 • A Distant Episode • Paul Bowles • ss The Partisan Review Jan-Feb ’47
- 32 • I See You Never • Ray Bradbury • vi New Yorker Nov 8 ’47
- 36 • The Apprentice [“Once and for All”] • Dorothy Canfield • ss Ladies Home Journal Apr ’47
- 46 • The Enormous Radio • John Cheever • ss New Yorker May 17 ’47
- 57 • That’s My Johnny-Boy • George R. Clay • ss Tomorrow Jul ’47
- 73 • Visitor from Philadelphia • John Bell Clayton • ss Harper’s Aug ’47
- 78 • A Letter to Mr. Priest • Margaret Cousins • ss Good Housekeeping Nov ’47
- 93 • The Hollow Heart • M. F. K. Fisher • ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year Nov ’47
- 99 • “Fly, Fly, Little Dove” • Philip Garrigan • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’47
- 106 • Miami-New York • Martha Gellhorn • ss Harper’s May ’47
- 124 • Sparrow’s Last Jump • Elliott Grennard • ss Harper’s May ’47
- 139 • The Human Fly • Ralph Gustafson • ss Atlantic Monthly Jan ’47
- 148 • Why Were You Sent Out Here? • John Hersey • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’47
- 157 • The Dawn Swings In • Lance Jeffers • ss Mainstream, 1947
- 172 • Morning, a Week Before the Crime • Victoria Lincoln • ss Cosmopolitan May ’47
- 189 • The Terror in the Streets • Robert Lowry • ss Mademoiselle Jun ’47
- 200 • The Burden • John A. Lynch • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’47
- 213 • The Search • Vincent McHugh • ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year Jul ’47
- 222 • The Professor and the Puli • Robert Morse • ss Harper’s Jun ’47
- 236 • The Stupendous Fortune • Ruth Portugal • ss Good Housekeeping Jan ’47
- 249 • That’s the Man! • Mary Brinker Post • ss Today’s Woman Feb ’47
- 266 • Carmencita • Waverley Root • ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year Dec ’47
- 274 • The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman’s Life • Dolph Sharp • ss Story Mar-Apr ’47
- 294 • Beyond the Glass Mountain • Wallace Stegner • ss Harper’s May ’47
- 305 • The Plan • Sidney Sulkin • ss The Kenyon Review Sum ’47
- 321 • The Whole World Knows • Eudora Welty • ss Harper’s Bazaar Mar ’47
- 341 • The Second Tree from the Corner • E. B. White • ss New Yorker May 31 ’47
- 347 • Biographical Notices • Misc. Material • bg
- 353 • The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1947 • Misc. Material • bi
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