The Best American Short Stories, 1998 :  selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines / 
[edited] by Garrison Keillor with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Garrison Keillor. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1998. 
 - xvii, 315 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> Foreword --  Introduction /  Appetites /  The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue /  Body language /  Chance /  Cosmopolitan /  Elvis has left the building /  Every night for a thousand years /  Flower children /  Glory goes and gets some /  The half-skinned steer /  Morphine /  Mr. Sweetly Indecent /  My father on the verge of disgrace /  Penance /  People like that are the only people here /  Tea at the house /  Unified front /  Wayne in love /  Welding with children /  Would you know it wasn't love /  Contributors' notes --  100 other distinguished stories of 1997 --  Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories.  Garrison Keillor --  Kathryn Chetkovich --  Poe Ballantine --  Diane Schoemperlen --  Edith Pearlman --  Akhil Sharma --  Carol Anshaw --  Chris Adrian --  Maxine Swann --  Emily Carter --  Annie Proulx --  Doran Larson --  Bliss Broyard --  John Updike --  Matthew Crain --  Lorrie Moore --  Meg Wolitzer --  Antonya Nelson --  Padgett Powell --  Tim Gautreaux --  Hester Kaplan -- 
<br/><br/> An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395875153 9780395875155 0395875145 9780395875148 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 648 .S5 B4 1998