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