The Best American Short Stories 2004
# The Best American Short Stories 2004

The Best American Short Stories 2004, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Lorrie Moore.

## Short Stories included

| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| - | - | - |
| Sherman Alexie | "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" | The New Yorker |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle | "Tooth and Claw" | The New Yorker |
| Catherine Brady | "Written in Stone" | Zyzzyva |
| Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum | "Accomplice" | The Georgia Review |
| Charles D'Ambrosio | "Screenwriter" | The New Yorker |
| Stuart Dybek | "Breasts" | Tin House |
| Deborah Eisenberg | "Some Other, Better Otto" | The Yale Review |
| Paula Fox | "Grace" | Harper's Magazine |
| Nell Freudenberger | "The Tutor" | Granta |
| Edward P. Jones | "A Rich Man" | The New Yorker |
| Trudy Lewis | "Limestone Diner" | Meridian |
| Jill McCorkle | "Intervention" | Ploughshares |
| Thomas McGuane | "Gallatin Canyon" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Runaway" | The New Yorker |
| Angela Pneuman | "All Saints Day" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Annie Proulx | "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick" | The New Yorker |
| R. T. Smith | "Docent" | The Missouri Review |
| John Updike | "The Walk with Elizanne" | The New Yorker |
| Mary Yukari Waters | "Mirror Studies" | Zoetrope |
| John Edgar Wideman | "What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence" | Harper's Magazine |

## Other notable stories

Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2003" were Max Apple, Kevin Brockmeier, Dan Chaon, Stephen King, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates and Joy Williams.

