The Best American Short Stories 2005
# The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Short Stories 2005, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Michael Chabon.

## Short Stories included

| Author | Story | Where story previously appeared |
| - | - | - |
| Tom Perrotta | "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face" | Post Road |
| Dennis Lehane | "Until Gwen" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Lynne Sharon Schwartz | "A Taste of Dust" | Ninth Letter |
| Thomas McGuane | "Old Friends" | The New Yorker |
| J. Robert Lennon | "Eight Pieces for the Left Hand" | Granta |
| Kelly Link | "Stone Animals" | Conjunctions |
| Nathaniel Bellows | "First Four Measures" | The Paris Review |
| Charles D'Ambrosio | "The Scheme of Things" | The New Yorker |
| Alice Munro | "Silence" | The New Yorker |
| Tom Bissell | "Death Defier" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Joy Williams | "The Girls" | Idaho Review |
| Cory Doctorow | "Anda's Game" | Salon.com |
| Alix Ohlin | "Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student" | Swink |
| Edward P. Jones | "Old Boys, Old Girls" | The New Yorker |
| David Means | "The Secret Goldfish" | The New Yorker |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "The Cousins" | Harper's Magazine |
| David Bezmozgis | "Natasha" | Harper's Magazine |
| Tim Pratt | "Hart and Boot" | Polyphony |
| Rishi Reddi | "Justice Shiva Ram Murthy" | Harvard Review |
| George Saunders | "Bohemians" | The New Yorker |

## Other notable stories

Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2005" were Ann Beattie, E. L. Doctorow, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rick Moody, Gina Ochsner and John Updike.

