All the Days and Nights

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All the Days and Nights (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Probably no other magazine published in America has had as powerful an impact on the twentieth century short story as The New Yorker. A cursory survey of such yearly collections as Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories reveal that The New Yorker is generally represented more often than any other single magazine. Many of the greatest short-story writers in the second half of the century, such as Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Raymond Carver, and John Cheever, published in its pages regularly.

It is therefore somewhat surprising to read...

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See Also:

• William Maxwell (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• William Maxwell (Long Fiction)