The Best American Short Stories 1973
by Martha Foley, Donald Barthelme, Henry Bromell, John Cheever, John J. Clayton, John William Corrington, Guy Davenport, William Eastlake, Alan Greenberg, Julie Hayden, George V. Higgins, Ward Just, James S. Kenary, Wallace E. Knight, Konstantinos Lardas, Bernard Malamud, James Alan McPherson, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Erik Sandberg-Diment, David Shetzline,