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Going by what's found in this collection, the late 1950s was certainly a fertile time for American fiction. This excellent volume includes stories by Nelson Algren, Gina Berriault, Evan S. Connell, Jr., William Eastlake, Flannery O'Connor ("Greenleaf"), and Tillie Olson, to name the more famous authors.

Of the writers who were new to me, the highlights were "Man's Courage" about a Black officer at an Army training camp in the South, by Wyatt Blasingame, "Run, Run Away, Brother," about a man thinking back ruefully about his boyhood treatment of his brother, who has died in World War 2, by John Campbell Smith, "Saturday is a Poor Man's Sport," a story about sadness and loneliness (but still somehow beautiful) in a boarding house, by Henrietta Wiegel, and a quiet lovely story, again about brothers, called "Escape to the City," by Gordon Woodward.

some really good, some I didn't like at all.½

This remains one of my favorite short story collections. Martha Foley has collected a variegated batch of short stories from authors famous and not-so, creating a mosaic of American life. The range of styles and subjects keep things fresh from story to story, and this collection shows Foley's strengths and entertains at the same time.

A fiftieth anniversary collection of the annual selections of best short story from The Best American Short Stories. Authors in this collection represent a Who's Who of American finest fiction writers.

"And the yearbook of the american short story"

This anthology of short stories that includes M.F.K. Fisher's "The Hollow Heart",
originally published the prior year in "'47 - The Magazine of the Year".