My God- What Have I Done?!


These new purchases are outside of my reading. Sometimes you are presented with a deal too good to refuse.

"Every man must die sooner or later, but good books must be preserved."
Don Vincente

The Best American Short Stories 1969 ed. Martha Foley & David Burnett


1 The Eldest Child - Maeve Brennan- New Yorker Jun 23 ’68

9 Play Like I’m Sheriff - Jack Cady- Twigs #4 ’68

21 Murphy’s Xmas - Mark Costello- Transatlantic Review Win ’68

37 Walking Wounded - John Bart Gerald- Harper’s Aug ’68

49 The Foreigner in the Blood - Mary Gray Hughes- Esquire Feb ’68

69 The Boy in the Green Hat - Norma Klein- Prairie Schooner Sum ’68

81 Happiness - Mary Lavin- New Yorker Dec 14 ’68

99 The Boat - Alistair Macleod- Massachusetts Review Spr ’68

117 The Day the Flowers Came - David Madden- Playboy Sep ’68

129 Pictures of Fidelman - Bernard Malamud- Atlantic Monthly Dec ’68

147 Porkchops with Whiskey and Ice Cream - Matthew W. McGregor- The Virginia Quarterly Review Spr ’68

165 Gold Coast - James Alan McPherson- Atlantic Monthly Nov ’68

183 The Inheritance of Emmy One Horse [as by Christopher Garrard]- John R. Milton- The South Dakota Review Spr ’68

195 By the River - Joyce Carol Oates- December, 1968

213 The Visitation - Nancy Pelletier- Pansing Intr1 Sep ’68

233 Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - Sylvia Plath- Atlantic Monthly Sep ’68

249 Paper Poppy - Miriam Rugel- The Kenyon Review #4 ’68

265 The Tea Bowl of Ninsei Nomura - Margaret Shipley- The Denver Quarterly Sum ’68

275 The Colony - Isaac Bashevis Singer- Commentary Nov ’68

287 Benjamen Burning - Joyce Madelon Winslow- Intr1 Sep ’68


The Best American Short Stories 1972 ed. Martha Foley


1 Gold M. F. Beal- New American Review #11 ’71

16 The World War I Los Angeles Airplane - Richard Brautigan- New American Review #12 ’71

20 Covenant - Kelly Cherry- Commentary, 1971

48 A Death on the East Side - Herbert Gold- Esquire May ’71

75 The Supremacy of the Hunza - Joanne Greenberg- Transatlantic Review, ‘71

93 The Breadman - Mary Heath- The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’71

113 Drums Again - Edward M. Holmes- The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’71

123 The Judge - Mary Gray Hughes- Atlantic Monthly Nov ’71

138 In Black and White - Ann Jones- The Virginia Quarterly Review Sum ’71

153 Three Washington Stories - Ward Just- Atlantic Monthly Dec ’71

180 His Day Out - Robert Kalechofsky- Western Humanities Review Sum ’71

193 The Further Adventures of Brunhild - Rebecca Kavaler- The Yale Review Aut ’71

212 Fox and Swan - John L’Heureux- Transatlantic Review, ‘71

226 Intimacy - Ralph Maloney- Atlantic Monthly Feb ’71

235 The Aesculapians - Marvin Mandell- Epoch Spr ’71

256 The Dock-Witch - Cynthia Ozick- Event Spr ’71

290 The Vacation - Joe Ashby Porter- Occident Fll ’71

309 The Magic Apple - Penelope Street- Occident, ‘71

324 Meet Me in the Green Glen - Robert Penn Warren- The Partisan Review, ‘71

347 Stealing Cars - Theodore Weesner- Audience, ‘71

373 The Guns in the Closet - Jose Yglesias- New Yorker, ‘71


The Best American Short Stories 1975 ed. Martha Foley


1 The Lie - Russell Banks- Fiction International #2/3 ’74

8 The School - Donald Barthelme- New Yorker Jun 17 ’74

12 How to Win - Rosellen Brown- Massachusetts Review v14 #4 ’74

26 Desert Matinee - Jerry Bumpus- Fiction International #2/3 ’74

37 Bambi Meets the Furies - Frederick Busch- The Ohio Review Fll ’74

47 Waiting for Astronauts - Nancy Chaikin- The Colorado Quarterly Aut ’74

59 Paths Unto the Dead - Mary Clearman- Georgia Review Sum ’74

69 Tyranny - Lyll Becerra de Jenkins- New Yorker, 1974

80 Cadence - Andre Dubus- The Sewanee Review Sum ’74

100 Big Boy - Jesse Hill- Ford Atlantic Monthly, 1974

111 The Spirit in Me - William Hoffman- The Sewanee Review Spr ’74

124 The Analyst - Evan Hunter- Playboy Dec ’74

137 How Jerem Came Home - Paul Kaser- The Colorado Quarterly Aut ’74

144 The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair Macleod- The Southern Review, 1974

162 The Burial - Jack Matthews- Georgia Review Win ’74

178 The Howard Parker Montcrief Hoax - Eugene McNamara- Canadian Fiction Magazine Win ’74

197 Night and Day at Panacea - Reynolds Price- Harper’s Aug ’74

212 Polonaise - Abraham Rothberg- Massachusetts Review v15 #4 ’74

254 Lullaby - Leslie Silko- Chicago Review v26 #1 ’74

264 The Man Who Lived - Barry Targan- Southern Review, 1974

278 The American Sickness - Jose Yglesias- Massachusetts Review v15 #4 ’74


The Best American Short Stories 1977 ed. Martha Foley


1 The Trouble with Being Food - Frederick Busch- Esquire, 1976

15 Tarzan Meets the Department Head - Price Caldwell- The Carleton Miscellany, 1976

24 Falconer - John Cheever- Playboy Jan ’76

43 At Peace - Ann Copeland- Canadian Fiction Magazine Aug ’76

66 Pleadings - John William Corrington- The Southern Review, 1976

102 Growing Up in No Time - Philip Damon- Hawaii Review, 1976

111 The Steinway Quintet - Leslie Epstein- Antæus, 1976

161 The Lover - Eugene K. Garber- Shenandoah, 1976

181 Look at a Teacup - Patricia Hampl- New Yorker, 1976

188 Rider Baine Kerr- The Denver Quarterly, 1976

205 A Questionnaire for Rudolph Gordon - John Matthews- Malahat Review Jul ’76

210 A Passion for History - Stephen Minot- The Sewanee Review Spr ’76

222 The Woman Who Thought Like a Man - Charles Newman- The Partisan Review v43 #4 ’76

235 Gay - Joyce Carol Oates- Playboy Dec ’76

256 Going After Cacciato - Tim O’Brien- Ploughshares Spr ’76

275 The Chink and the Clock People - Tom Robbins- American Review, 1976

291 A Fresno Fable - William Saroyan- New Yorker, 1976

293 Breed - John Sayles- Atlantic Monthly Jul ’76

317 Your Place Is Empty - Anne Tyler- New Yorker, 1976

338 Anthropology: What Is Lost in Rotation - William S. Wilson- Antæus, 1976

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