The Best American Short Stories 1973

A City of Churches — Donald Barthelme The Slightest Distance — Henry Bromell The Jewels of the Cabots — John Cheever Cambridge Is Sinking! — John J. Clayton Old Men Dream Dreams, Young Men See Visions — John William Corrington Robot — Guy Davenport The Death of the Sun — William Eastlake The Real Meaning of the Faust Legend — Alvin Greenberg In the Words Of — Julie Hayden The Habits of the Animals: The Progress of the Seasons — George V. Higgins Burns — Ward Just Going Home — James S. Kenary The Way We Went — Wallace E. Knight The Broken Wings — Konstantinos Lardas The Silver Bullet — James Alan McPherson God's Wrath — Bernard Malamud Silkie — Joyce Carol Oates Mothers — Sylvia Plath Come Away, Oh Human Child — Erik Sandberg-Diment Country of the Painted Freaks — David Shetzline Happy August the 10th — Tennessee Williams Biographical Notes The Yearbook of the American Short Story Roll of Honor, 1972 Distinctive Short Stories, 1972 Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories