| The Best American Short Stories 1997 | |
| Editor: | Katrina Kenison and E. Annie Proulx |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Best American Short Stories |
| Published: | 1997 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0395798655 |
| Preceded By: | The Best American Short Stories 1996 |
| Followed By: | The Best American Short Stories 1998 |
The Best American Short Stories 1997, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor E. Annie Proulx.[1] [2] This was the first and only year that the stories were formally grouped by category, rather than alphabetically.
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Saboteur" | The Antioch Review | |
| "Under the Pitons" | Esquire | |
| "Bob Darling" | The Paris Review | |
| "Chez Lambert" | The Paris Review | |
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Transactions" | TriQuarterly | |
| "Nobody in Hollywood" | The New Yorker | |
| "Save My Child!" | The New Yorker | |
| "Eternal Love" | Granta | |
| "A Girl with a Monkey" | Partisan Review | |
| "St. Martin" | Grand Street | |
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Fiesta, 1980" | Story | |
| "From Willow Temple" | The Atlantic Monthly | |
| "Killing Babies" | The New Yorker | |
| "Send Me to the Electric Chair" | The Oxford American | |
| "Missing Women" | The Southern Review | |
| "Air Mail" | The Yale Review | |
| "Soon" | The Southern Review | |
| Author | Story | Source |
|---|---|---|
| "Shipmates Down Under" | American Short Fiction | |
| "Powder" | Fish Stories | |
| "Search Bay" | Ploughshares | |
| "Little Frogs in a Ditch" | Gentlemen's Quarterly | |