
The Best Short Stories of 1933
The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title<br></th> <th>Author<br></th> <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Fame Takes the J Car</td> <td>George Albee</td> <td>(Story Dec 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Little Walk</td> <td>Alvah C. Bessie</td> <td>(Story May/Jun 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Toadstools Are Poison</td> <td>John Peale Bishop</td> <td>(North American Review Jun 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elmer</td> <td>Albert Truman Boyd</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Serenade</td> <td>Whit Burnett</td> <td>(Story Oct 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The First Autumn</td> <td>Erskine Caldwell</td> <td>(Pagany Jul-Sep 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Sick Call</td> <td>Morley Callaghan</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Sep 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Land of Plenty</td> <td>Robert Cantwell</td> <td>(The New Republic Oct 12 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Honey Pot</td> <td>Charles Caldwell Dobie</td> <td>(Harper’s Jun 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Black Wolf</td> <td>Walter D. Edmonds</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post Jun 18 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Helen, I Love You!</td> <td>James T. Farrell</td> <td>(The American Mercury Jul 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Crazy Sunday</td> <td>F. Scott Fitzgerald</td> <td>(The American Mercury Oct 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>What Was Truly Mine</td> <td>Grace Flandrau</td> <td>(Scribner’s Aug 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Martyr</td> <td>Martha Foley</td> <td>(Story Aug 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Fisherman’s Luck</td> <td>Emmett Gowen</td> <td>(The New English Weekly Sep 22 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Simple Aveu</td> <td>Nancy Hale</td> <td>(Scribner’s May 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Going to Market</td> <td>Albert Halper</td> <td>(Harper’s Oct 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>In the Park</td> <td>Eugene Joffe</td> <td>(The New Republic Oct 5 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sleet Storm</td> <td>Louise Lambertson</td> <td>(The Country Gentleman Jan 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Facts in the Case</td> <td>Grant Leenhouts</td> <td>(The American Mercury May 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Apostate</td> <td>George Milburn</td> <td>(The New Yorker Jun 4 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Sampler</td> <td>Ira V. Morris</td> <td>(Story Dec 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Footnote to a Life</td> <td>Lloyd Morris</td> <td>(Harper’s May 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Cracked Looking-Glass</td> <td>Katherine Anne Porter</td> <td>(Scribner’s May 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Episode at the Pawpaws</td> <td>Louis Reed</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly May 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ike and Us Moons</td> <td>Naomi Shumway</td> <td>(Story Oct 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>How Beautiful with Shoes</td> <td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Joybell</td> <td>Dorothy Thomas</td> <td>(The American Mercury Nov 1932)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Fence</td> <td>José Garcia Villa</td> <td>(Prairie Schooner Sum 1932)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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