TY - BOOK TI - The best American short stories, 2002 : : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines T2 - Best American series U1 - 813.010806 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Boston : PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories, Canadian KW - American fiction KW - 21st century KW - Canadian fiction N1 - 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 magazines publishing short stories ER -