Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000-
Note:2001 - Servants of the map / Andrea Barrett -- The fireman / Rick Bass -- Think of England / Peter Ho Davies -- Labors of the heart / Claire Davis -- The mourning door / Elizabeth Graver -- After cowboy chicken came to town / Ha Jin -- Brothers and sisters around the world / Andrea Lee -- Boys / Rick Moody -- Rug weaver / Barbara Klein -- Post and beam/ Alice Munro -- The raft / Peter Orner -- Betty Hutton / Roy Parvin -- Illumination / Nancy Reisman -- The secrets of bats / Jess Row -- Nobody listens when I talk / Annette Sanford -- My mother's garden / Katherine Shonk --What I saw from where I stood / Marisa Silver-- The apple tree / Trevanian --Personal archeology / John Updike -- My baby / Dorothy West.
Note:2002. Foreword -- Introduction / Sue Miller -- Along the frontage road / Michael Chabon -- The sugar-tit / Carolyn Cooke -- The red ant house / Ann Cummins -- Seven / Edwidge Danticat -- A house on the plains / E.L. Doctorow -- Puppy / Richard Ford -- The heifer / Melissa Hardy -- Zilkowski's theorem / Karl Iagnemma -- Nobody's business / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Digging / Beth Lordan -- In case we're separated / Alice Mattison -- Billy goats / Jill McCorkle -- Watermelon days / Tom McNeal -- Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels -- Bulldog / Arthur Miller -- The rug / Meg Mullins -- Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Surrounded by sleep / Akhil Sharma -- Love and hydrogen / Jim Shepard -- Aftermath / Mary Yukari Waters -- Contributor's notes -- 100 other distinguished stories of 2001 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazine publishing short stories
Note:2003. Rationing / Mary Yukari Waters -- Mines / Susan Straight -- Coins / Mona Simpson -- Heaven Lake / Jess Row -- Kavita through glass / Emily Ishem Raboteau -- Ghost knife / Sharon Pomerantz -- Marie-Ange's ginen / Marilene Phipps -- Moriya / Dean Paschal -- Every tongue shall confess / ZZ Packer -- Future emergencies / Nicole Krauss -- Devotion / Adam Haslett -- Why the sky turns red when the sun goes down / Ryan Harty -- Shamengwa / Louise Erdrich -- The shell collector / Anthony Doerr -- Baby Wilson / E.L. Doctorow -- Night talkers / Edwidge Danticat -- Johnny Hamburger / Rand Richards Cooper -- The bees / Dan Chaon -- Space / Kevin Brockmeier.
Note:2004. (2004) What you pawn I will redeem / Sherman Alexie -- Tooth and claw / T. Corahessan Boyle -- Written in stone / Catherine Brady -- Accomplice / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Screenwriter / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Breasts / Stuart Dybek -- Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg -- Grace / Paula Fox -- Tutor / Nell Freudenberger -- Rich man / Edward P. Jones -- Limestone diner / Trudy Lewis -- Intervention / Jill McCorkle -- Gallatin Canyon / Thomas McGuane -- Runaway / Alice Munro -- All Saints Day / Angela Pneuman -- What kind of furniture would Jesus pick? / Annie Proulx -- Docent / R. T. Smith -- Walk with Elizanne / John Updike -- Mirror studies / Mary Yukari Waters -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence / John Edgar Wideman.
Note:Introduction / Michael Chabon -- The smile on happy chang's face / Tom Perrotta -- Until Gwen / Dennis Lehane -- A taste of dust / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Old friends / Thomas McGuane -- Eight pieces for the left hand / J. Robert Lennon -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- First four measures / Nathaniel Bellows -- The scheme of things / Charles D'Ambrosio -- Silence / Alice Munro -- Death defier / Tom Bissell -- The girls / Joy Williams -- Anda's game / Cory Doctorow -- Simple exercises for the beginning student / Alix Ohlin -- Old boys, old girls / Edward P. Jones -- The secret goldfish / David Means -- The cousins / Joyce Carol Oates -- Natasha / David Bezmozgis -- Hart and boot / Tim Pratt -- Justice shiva ram murthy / Rishi Reddi -- Bohemians / George Saunders.
Note:Introduction / Ann Patchett -- Paul Yoon / Once the shore -- Tobias Wolff / Awaiting orders -- Donna Tartt / The ambush -- Maxine Swann / Secret -- Mark Slouka / Dominion -- Patrick Ryan / So much for Artemis -- Benjamin Percy / Refresh, refresh -- Edith Pearlman / Self-reliance -- Alice Munro / The view from Castle Rock -- Kevin Moffett / Tattooizm -- Thomas McGuane / Cowboy -- Jack Livings / The dog -- Yiyun Li / After a life -- Aleksander Hemon / The conductor -- Mary Gaitskill / Today I'm yours -- Nathan Englander / How we avenged the blums -- Robert Coover / Grandmother's nose -- David Bezmozgis / A new gravestone for an old grave -- Katherine Bell / The casual car pool -- Anne Beattie with Harry Mathews / Mr. Nobody at all.
Note:2007: Pa's darling / Louis Auchincloss -- Toga party / John Barth -- Solid wood / Ann Beattie -- Balto / T.C. Boyle -- Riding the doghouse / Randy DeVita -- My brother Eli / Joseph Epstein -- Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you? / William Gay -- Eleanor's music / Mary Gordon -- L. DeBard and Aliette, a love story / Lauren Groff -- Wake / Beverly Jensen -- Wait / Roy Kesey -- Findings & impressions / Stellar Kim -- Allegiance / Aryn Kyle -- Boy in Zaquitos / Bruce McAllister -- Dimension / Alice Munro -- Bris / Eileen Pollack -- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves / Karen Russell -- Horseman / Richard Russo -- Sans farine / Jim Shepard -- Do something / Kate Walbert.
