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.Kenison, Katrina and Chabon, Michael (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2005 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2005.
Short stories included Author Story Where story previously appearedTom 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 YorkerJ. 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.
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External links Best American Short Stories