The Best American Short Stories 2007, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Stephen King.Pitor, Heidi and King, Stephen (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2007 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2007.
Short stories included Author Story Where story previously appearedLouis Auchincloss "Pa's Darling" Yale Review John Barth "Toga Party" Fiction Ann Beattie "Solid Wood" Boulevard T. C. Boyle "Balto" Paris Review Randy DeVita "Riding the Doghouse" West Branch Joseph Epstein "My Brother Eli" Hudson Review William Gay "Where Will You Go When Your Skin Cannot Contain You" Tin House Mary Gordon "Eleanor's Music" Ploughshares Lauren Groff "L. DeBard and Aliette: A Love Story" The Atlantic Monthly Beverly Jensen "Wake" New England Review Roy Kesey "Wait" Kenyon Review Stellar Kim "Findings & Impressions" Iowa Review Aryn Kyle "Allegiance" Ploughshares Bruce McAllister "The Boy in Zaquitos" Fantasy and Science Fiction Alice Munro "Dimension" The New Yorker Eileen Pollack "The Bris" Subtropics Karen Russell "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" Granta Richard Russo "Horseman" The Atlantic Monthly Jim Shepard "Sans Farine" Harper's Magazine Kate Walbert "Do Something" Ploughshares
Other notable stories
Stephen King also selected "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006." These included short stories by many well-known writers including Francine Prose's "An Open Letter to Doctor X" from Virginia Quarterly Review, Jhumpa Lahiri's "Once in a Lifetime" from The New Yorker, Lorrie Moore's "Paper Losses" from The New Yorker and Jacob Appel's "The Butcher's Music" from West Branch, as well as works by up-and-coming fiction writers such as David Kear, Matthew Pitt, Paula Nangle, Alison Clement and Justin Kramon.
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