The Best American Short Stories 2007

Short story collection

The Best American Short Stories 2007

Editor| Stephen King and Heidi Pitlor
Language| English
Series| The Best American Short Stories
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by| The Best American Short Stories 2006
Followed by| The Best American Short Stories 2008

The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.[1]

## Short Stories included

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Author | Story | Where story previously appeared

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Louis Auchincloss | "Pa's Darling" | Yale Review
John Barth | "Toga Party" | Fiction
Ann Beattie | "Solid Wood" | Boulevard
T. C. Boyle | "Balto" | Paris Review
Randy DeVita | "Riding the Doghouse" | West Branch
Joseph Epstein | "My Brother Eli" | Hudson Review
William Gay | "Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You" | Tin House
Mary Gordon | "Eleanor's Music" | Ploughshares
Lauren Groff | "L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story" | The Atlantic Monthly
Beverly Jensen | "Wake" | New England Review
Roy Kesey  | "Wait" | Kenyon Review
Stellar Kim | "Findings & Impressions" | Iowa Review
Aryn Kyle | "Allegiance" | Ploughshares
Bruce McAllister | "The Boy in Zaquitos" | Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alice Munro | "Dimension" | The New Yorker
Eileen Pollack | "The Bris" | Subtropics
Karen Russell | "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" | Granta
Richard Russo | "Horseman" | The Atlantic Monthly
Jim Shepard | "Sans Farine" | Harper's Magazine
Kate Walbert  | "Do Something" | Ploughshares

## Other notable stories

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Stephen King also selected "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006." These included short stories by many well-known writers including Francine Prose's "An Open Letter to Doctor X" from Virginia Quarterly Review, Jhumpa Lahiri's "Once in a Lifetime" from The New Yorker, Lorrie Moore's "Paper Losses" from The New Yorker and Jacob Appel's "The Butcher's Music" from West Branch, as well as works by up-and-coming fiction writers such as David Kear, Matthew Pitt, Paula Nangle, Alison Clement and Justin Kramon.

## Notes

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1. ^ Pitor, Heidi and King, Stephen (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2007 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2007.

## External links

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* Best American Short Stories Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine

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