Gelfant, Blanche H., ed., The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, Columbia University Press, 2000.

This comprehensive reference guide to twentieth century short stories includes over 100 pages of thematic essays that focus on the form of the short story as well as stories from over 100 writers.

Updike, John, and Katrina Kenison, eds., The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Updike, one ofAmerica's leading short story writers, co-edited this critically-acclaimed anthology that includes writers from the entire twentieth century.

Williford, Lex, and Michael Martone, eds., The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories since 1970, Simon and Schuster, 1999.

This is an eclectic anthology of contemporary short stories written by American writers, including Lorrie Moore.