The Best American Short Stories 1999
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The Best American Short Stories 1999, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Amy Tan
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Amy Tan
Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...
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Short stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
| Rick Bass Rick Bass Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist.-Life:Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum... |
"The Hermit's Story" | The Paris Review |
| Junot Diaz Junot Díaz Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience... |
"The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Chitra Divakaruni | "Mrs. Dutta Writes A Letter" | The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic is an American magazine founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It quickly achieved a national reputation, which it held for more than a century. It was important for recognizing and publishing new writers and poets,... |
| Stephen Dobyns Stephen Dobyns Stephen J. Dobyns is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI.-Life:Was born on February 19, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey to Lester L., a minister, and Barbara Johnston... |
"Kansas" | Clackamas Literary Review |
| Nathan Englander Nathan Englander Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999... |
"The Tumblers" | American Short Fiction |
| Tim Gautreaux Tim Gautreaux Timothy Martin Gautreaux is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Hammond, Louisiana, where he is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.... |
"The Piano Tuner" | Harper's Magazine Harper's Magazine Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010... |
| Melissa Hardy | "The Uncharted Heart" | Ontario Review |
| George Harrar | "The 5:22" | Story Magazine |
| A. Hemon Aleksandar Hemon Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written four acclaimed books: Love and Obstacles: Stories , The Lazarus Project: A Novel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle... |
"Islands" | Ploughshares Ploughshares Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston... |
| Pam Houston | "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" | Other Voices Other Voices Other Voices may refer to:Literature* Other Voices, Other Rooms , the 1948 novel by Truman Capote* Other Voices , an electronic journal of cultural criticism and cultural studies... |
| Ha Jin Ha Jin Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:... |
"In the Kindergarten" | Five Points Five Points Five Points may refer to:*Five Points, Alabama*Five Points, California , multiple locations*Five Points, Florida*Five Points, North Carolina*Five Points, Ohio*Five Points, Pennsylvania , multiple locations... |
| Heidi Julavits Heidi Julavits Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly... |
"Marry the One Who Gets There First" | Esquire Esquire (magazine) Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:... |
| Hester Kaplan Hester Kaplan -Life:She grew up in Cambridge. She graduated from Barnard College.She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design and teaches at Lesley University.... |
"Live Life King-Sized" | Press |
| Sheila Kohler | "Africans" | Story |
| Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both... |
"Interpreter of Maladies" | AGNI Agni Agni is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods... |
| Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.-Biography:... |
"Real Estate" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Alice Munro Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize... |
"Save the Reaper" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| Annie Proulx | "The Bunchgrass at the Edge of the World" | The New Yorker The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... |
| James Spencer James Spencer James Matthew Spencer is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for F.C. United of Manchester.-Stockport County:... |
"The Robbers of Karnataka" | The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review The Gettysburg Review is a quarterly literary magazine featuring short stories, poetry, essays and reviews. Work appearing in the magazine often is reprinted in "best-of" anthologies and receives awards.... |
| Samrat Upadhyay Samrat Upadhyay Samrat Upadhyay is a Nepalese writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing as well as Director of Graduate Studies at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu,... |
"The Good Shopkeeper" | Manoa Manoa thumb|240px|right|Vintage shot of University of Hawaii, Manoa240px|thumb|right|Vintage photo of Manoa ValleyMānoa is a valley and a residential neighborhood of Honolulu CDP of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; the community is approximately three miles east and inland from... |
| Steve Yarbrough | "The Rest of Her Life" | The Missouri Review The Missouri Review The Missouri Review is a literary magazine. Founded in 1978 by the University of Missouri, it publishes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction quarterly. With its open submission policy, The Missouri Review receives 12,000 manuscripts each year and is known for printing previously unpublished... |