TY - BOOK AU - Keillor,Garrison AU - Kenison,Katrina TI - The Best American Short Stories, 1998: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines SN - 0395875153 AV - PS 648 .S5 B4 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Short stories, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction N1 - Foreword --; Introduction; Garrison Keillor --; Appetites; Kathryn Chetkovich --; The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue; Poe Ballantine --; Body language; Diane Schoemperlen --; Chance; Edith Pearlman --; Cosmopolitan; Akhil Sharma --; Elvis has left the building; Carol Anshaw --; Every night for a thousand years; Chris Adrian --; Flower children; Maxine Swann --; Glory goes and gets some; Emily Carter --; The half-skinned steer; Annie Proulx --; Morphine; Doran Larson --; Mr. Sweetly Indecent; Bliss Broyard --; My father on the verge of disgrace; John Updike --; Penance; Matthew Crain --; People like that are the only people here; Lorrie Moore --; Tea at the house; Meg Wolitzer --; Unified front; Antonya Nelson --; Wayne in love; Padgett Powell --; Welding with children; Tim Gautreaux --; Would you know it wasn't love; Hester Kaplan --; Contributors' notes --; 100 other distinguished stories of 1997 --; Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories N2 - 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 ER -