The Best American Short Stories 1997 by Jonathan Franzen, Junot Díaz, June Spence, Carolyn Cook, Leonard Michaels, Michelle Cliff, Pam Durban, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Alyson Hagy, Robert Stone, Annie Proulx, Ha Jin, Richard Bausch, Tobias Wolff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Tim Gautreaux, Michael Byers, Katrina Kenison, Cynthia Ozick, Donald Hall, Lydia Davis, Karen E. Bender, Clyde Edgerton | Lex | Lex