Opening book details…
Can I read THE BEST AMEERICAN SHORT STORIES 2004 on EtoBox?
THE BEST AMEERICAN SHORT STORIES 2004 by Lorrie Moore; Katrina Kenison; Sherman Alexie; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Catherine Brady; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Charles D'Ambrosio; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Paula Fox; Nell Freudenberger; Edward P Jones; Trudy Lewis; Jill McCorkle; Thomas McGuane; Alice Munro; Angela Pneuman; Annie Proulx; R. T Smith; John Updike; Mary Yukari Waters; John Edgar Wideman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is THE BEST AMEERICAN SHORT STORIES 2004 about?
Contemplating the appeal of the short story, Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction, "A story's very shortness ensures its largeness of accomplishment, its selfhood and purity. Having long lost its ability to pay an author's rent (in that golden blip between Henry James and television, F. Scott Fitzgerald, for one, wrote stories to fund his novels), the short story has been freed of its commercial life to become serious art, by virtually its every practitioner. As a result, short or long, a sto
Who reads THE BEST AMEERICAN SHORT STORIES 2004?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lorrie Moore; Katrina Kenison; Sherman Alexie; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Catherine Brady; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Charles D'Ambrosio; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Paula Fox; Nell Freudenberger; Edward P Jones; Trudy Lewis; Jill McCorkle; Thomas McGuane; Alice Munro; Angela Pneuman; Annie Proulx; R. T Smith; John Updike; Mary Yukari Waters; John Edgar Wideman
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780618427055
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Anthology
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (722 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Lorrie Moore; Katrina Kenison; Sherman Alexie; T. Coraghessan Boyle; Catherine Brady; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; Charles D'Ambrosio; Stuart Dybek; Deborah Eisenberg; Paula Fox; Nell Freudenberger; Edward P Jones; Trudy Lewis; Jill McCorkle; Thomas McGuane; Alice Munro; Angela Pneuman; Annie Proulx; R. T Smith; John Updike; Mary Yukari Waters; John Edgar Wideman
Similar books
- The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®) — Kenison, Katrina; Updike, John (1999)
- The Best Short Stories — edited and with an introd. by Robert N. Linscott (1947)
- The Best Short Stories — Edward J. O'Brien (1939)
- 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®) — Lorrie Moore; Heidi Pitlor; Edna Ferber; Sherwood Anderson; Ernest Hemingway; Ring Lardner; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Katherine Anne Porter; William Faulkner; Nancy Hale; Eudora Welty; John Cheever; Tillie Olsen; James Baldwin; Philip Roth; Flannery O'Connor; John Updike; Raymond Carver; Joyce Carol Oates; Donald Barthelme; Stanley Elkin; Grace Paley; Charles Baxter; Mona Simpson; Richard Ford; Robert Stone; David Wong Louie; Alice Munro; Mary Gaitskill; Jamaica Kincaid; Akhil Sharma; Junot Díaz; Jhumpa Lahiri; ZZ Packer; Sherman Alexie; Edward P Jones; Benjamin Percy; Tobias Wolff; Nathan Englander; Julie Otsuka; George Saunders; Lauren Groff (2020)
- The World's Best Short Short Stories — Roger B. Goodman (2024)
- The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Best American Short Stories) — Kenison, Annie Proulx, Katrina Kenison, Ha Jin, Robert Stone, Carolyn Cook, Jonathan Franzen, Michelle Cliff, Richard Bausch, Cynthia Ozick, Karen E. Bender, Leonard Michaels, Lydia Davis, Junot Díaz, Donald Hall, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Clyde Edgerton, June Spence, Jeffrey Eugenides, Pam Durban, Michael Byers, Tobias Wolff, Alyson Hagy, Tim Gautreaux (1997)