The Best American Short Stories 2008, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Heidi Pitlor and by guest editor Salman Rushdie.Pitor, Heidi and Rushdie, Salman (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2008 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2008.
Short stories included Author Story Where story previously appearedT. C. Boyle "Admiral" Harper's Magazine Kevin Brockmeier "The Year of Silence" Ecotone Karen Brown "Galatea" Crazyhorse Katie Chase "Man and Wife" The Missouri ReviewDanielle Evans "Virgins" Paris Review Allegra Goodman "Closely Held" Ploughshares A. M. Homes "May We Be Forgiven" Granta Nicole Krauss "From the Desk of Daniel Varsky" Harper's Magazine Jonathan Lethem "The King of Sentences" The New Yorker Rebecca Makkai "The Worst You Ever Feel" Shenandoah Steven Millhauser "The Wizard of West Orange" Harper's Magazine Daniyal Mueenuddin "Nawabdin Electrician" The New Yorker Alice Munro "Child's Play" Harper's Magazine Miroslav Penkov "Buying Lenin" The Southern Review Karen Russell "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" Zoetrope George Saunders "Puppy" The New Yorker Christine Sneed "Quality of Life" The New England Review Bradford Tice "Missionaries" The Atlantic Monthly Mark Wisniewski "Straightaway" The Antioch Review Tobias Wolff "Bible" The Atlantic Monthly
Other notable stories
In his introduction to the volume, Rushdie named several other writers whom he said that he was "sad to have left out" including Andre Aciman, David Foster Wallace, Rick DeMarinis, Beverly Jensen, Erin Soros, Shena McAuliffe, Brendan Mathews and Andrew Sean Greer. Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" were Daniel Alarcón, Jacob Appel, John Barth, Stuart Dybek, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Kemper, Stephen King, Molly McNett, Antonya Nelson, Jim Shepard, Melanie Rae Thon and John Updike.
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