The Best American short stories, 1978 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Ted Solotaroff with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Ted Solotaroff ; including the Yearbook of the American short story.

Contenido: Skaters on wood / Leslie Epstein -- The translation / Joyce Carol Oates -- A good loser / Elizabeth Cullinan -- Verona: a young woman speaks / Harold Brodky -- The Schreuderspitze / Mark Helprin -- In the Miro district / Peter Taylor -- The blacktop champion of Ickey Honey / Robert T. Sorrells -- Main Street morning / Natalie L.M. Petesch -- Murphy Jones: Pearblossom, California / Max Schott -- Psychopolis / Ian McEwan -- By the yellow lake / Peter Marsh -- The conventional wisdom / Stanley Elkin -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Rough strife / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- The windmill man / Tim McCarthy -- Telling the bees / L. Hluchan Sintetos -- Bromeliads / Joy Williams -- Two scenes / Janes Bowles -- Decades / Gilbert Sorrentino -- In Miami, last winter / James Kaplan -- The return of service / Jonathan Baumbach -- Staus / Mary Ann Malinchak Rishel.