The Best American Short Stories 1998
# The Best American Short Stories 1998

The Best American Short Stories 1998, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Garrison Keillor.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| - | - | - |
| Kathryn Chetkovich | "Appetites" | Zyzzyva |
| Poe Ballantine | "The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue" | The Sun |
| Diane Schoemperlen | "Body Language" | Story |
| Edith Pearlman | "Chance" | The Antioch Review |
| Akhil Sharma | "Cosmopolitan" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Carol Anshaw | "Elvis Has Left the Building" | Story |
| Chris Adrian | "Every Night for a Thousand Years" | The New Yorker |
| Maxine Swann | "Flower Children" | Ploughshares |
| Emily Carter | "Glory Goes and Gets Some" | Open City |
| Annie Proulx | "The Half-Skinned Steer" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Doran Larson | "Morphine" | Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Bliss Broyard | "Mr. Sweetly Indecent" | Ploughshares |
| John Updike | "My Father on the Verge of Disgrace" | The New Yorker |
| Matthew Crain | "Penance" | Harper's Magazine |
| Lorrie Moore | "People Like That Are the Only People Here" | The New Yorker |
| Meg Wolitzer | "Tea at the House" | Ploughshares |
| Antonya Nelson | "Unified Front" | The Midwesterner |
| Padgett Powell | "Wayne in Love" | New England Review |
| Tim Gautreaux | "Welding with Children" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Hester Kaplan | "Would You Know It Wasn't Love" | Gulf Coast |

## Other notable stories

Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997" were Ann Beattie, T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tess Gallagher, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, and Tobias Wolff.

