# The stories editors buy and why

Author: Wick, Jean [Compiler]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76740

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+stories+editors+buy+and+why+Wick&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

During the past twenty years the short story has come to occupy a distinct place in American letters. While it must perhaps be granted that we are not pre-eminent in the novel or the essay, we may quite fairly pride ourselves upon the high achievement of our authors in short story writing. American magazines (and this is said in no spirit of braggadocio) today carry more and better short stories than do the magazines of any other country. In addition it should be taken into consideration that we in America publish a greater number of periodicals devoted either wholly or in part to fiction than is the custom elsewhere. Thus automatically the would-be short story writer is given opportunity...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-stories-editors-buy-and-why-76740/chapters/28/index.md)