Contents of The Best American Short Stories 1991

The Best American Short Stories 1991 ed. Alice Adams & Katrina Kennison (Houghton Mifflin, 1991, $9.95, xx+426pp, hc)

·         The Legend of Pig Eye · Rick Bass · The Paris Review, 1990

·          The Disappeared · Charles Baxter ·  Michigan Quarterly Review, 1990

·          Love Is Not a Pie · Amy Bloom ·  Room of One’s Own, 1990

·         Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta · Kate Braverman ·  Story Aut ’90

·         The Trip Back · Robert Olen Butler ·  The Southern Review, 1990

·         The Point · Charles D’Ambrosio, Jr. ·  New Yorker Oct 1 ’90

·         Oil and Water · Millicent Dillon · The Southwest Review Spr ’90

·         Another Short Day in La Luz · Harriet Doerr ·  New Yorker Dec 24 ’90

·         The Custodian · Deborah Eisenberg ·  New Yorker Mar 12 ’90

·         Separation · Mary Gordon · Antæus, 1990

·         The Body Shop · Elizabeth Graver ·  The Southern Review, 1990

·         Houdini · Siri Hustvedt ·  Fiction v9 #3 ’90

·         Bologoye · Mikhail Iossel ·  Boulevard, 1990

·         Glossolalia · David Jauss ·  Shenandoah, 1990

·         Viva la Tropicana · Leonard Michaels ·  Zyzzyva, 1990

·         Willing · Lorrie Moore · New Yorker May 14 ’90

·         Friend of My Youth · Alice Munro · New Yorker Jan 22 ’90

·         American, Abroad · Joyce Carol Oates ·  North American Review Mar ’90

·         Dog Stories · Francine Prose ·  Special Report: Fiction, 1990

·         A Sandstone Farmhouse · John Updike · New Yorker Jun 11 ’90

The Passage of Time - The Best American Short Stories 1990 - Completed

3 years 5 months and 10 days.

That’s how long I’ve carried this book around and struggled to write about the stories.

41 months and 10 days

or

179 weeks and 6 days

or

1259 days

That is a long-ass time to carry around a book.

Take a look at it.

Survived nicely I think.

When I started this book son #2 wasn’t even a thought.

Now…he’s a walking talking 2 ½ year old.

Incredible.

I wasn’t fair to this collection. I didn’t give it my heart.

The completion of this book also marks another point of evolution.

Shannon Ravenel passes the baton to a new series editor for BASS 1991.

I’m excited to see what the new series editor brings to the anthology.

Here’s the first entry on the BASS 1990 from September 2013. It has a copy of the letter Shannon wrote me. I’ll always hold that letter dear to my heart.

Off to 1991!