The best American short stories, 1993 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / by Louise Erdrich with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Louise Erdrich. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993. - xix, 395 p. ; 22 cm.

Contributors notes: p. [359]-376. "100 other distinguished stories of 1990": p. [377]-380. "Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories": p. [381]-395.

Playing with dynamite / John Updike -- The Girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill -- A Real life / Alice Munro -- Silent passengers / Larry Woiwode -- Queen Wintergreen / Alice Fulton -- The Man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore / Harlan Ellison -- Poltergeists / Jane Shapiro -- Red moccasins / Susan Power -- I want to live! / Thom Jones -- Charlotte / Tony Early -- What the thunder said / Janet Peery -- Naked ladies/ Antonya Nelson -- Man, woman and boy / Stephen Dixon -- Winter barley / Andrea Lee -- Concerning mold upon the skin, etc. / Joanna Scott -- Pray without ceasing / Wendell Berry -- Gold / Kim Edwards -- Great Barrier Reef / Diane Johnson -- Terrific mother / Lorrie Moore -- The Important houses / Mary Gordon.

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American fiction--20th century.
Short stories, American.
Canadian fiction--20th century.
Short stories, Canadian.

PS643 / .B47 1993