The Best American Short Stories 2002

The Best American Short Stories 2002, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Sue Miller.[1][2][3]

The Best American Short Stories 2002
EditorKatrina Kenison and Sue Miller
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Short Stories
Published2002
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN0395926866
Preceded byThe Best American Short Stories 2001 
Followed byThe Best American Short Stories 2003 

Short stories included

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Author Story Source
Michael Chabon "Along the Frontage Road" The New Yorker
Carolyn Cooke "The Sugar-Tit" Agni
Ann Cummins "The Red Ant House" McSweeney's
Edwidge Danticat "Seven" The New Yorker
E. L. Doctorow "A House on the Plains" The New Yorker
Richard Ford "Puppy" The Southwest Review
Melissa Hardy "The Heifer" Descant
Karl Iagnemma "Zilkowski's Theorem" Zoetrope
Jhumpa Lahiri "Nobody's Business" The New Yorker
Beth Lordan "Digging" The Atlantic Monthly
Alice Mattison "In Case We're Separated" Ploughshares
Jill McCorkle "Billy Goats" Bomb
Tom McNeal "Watermelon Days" Zoetrope
Leonard Michaels "Nachman from Los Angeles" The New Yorker
Arthur Miller "Bulldog" The New Yorker
Meg Mullins "The Rug" The New Yorker
Alice Munro "Family Furnishings" The New Yorker
Akhil Sharma "Surrounded by Sleep" The New Yorker
Jim Shepard "Love and Hydrogen" Harper's Magazine
Mary Yukari Waters "Aftermath" Manoa

Other notable stories

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Among the other notable writers whose stories were in the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2001" were Ann Beattie, Dan Chaon, Stuart Dybek, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Shacochis, John Updike and the late Richard Yates.

Notes

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  1. ^ Kennison, Katrina and Miller, Sue(editors), The Best American Short Stories 2002 Sue Miller, New York, 2002.
  2. ^ Nancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel October 7, 2002
  3. ^ Publishers Weekly, Sept. 30, 2002