Founded and edited by Anne Turyn, Top Stories was a prose periodical dedicated to the fiction writing of emerging women artists and writers in the late seventies. First printed in 1979, every contributor was designated a full issue to create and shape as their own, sometimes in collaboration with a visual artist. As a result, much of the writing is experimental and ranges completely in style of prose and topic, making for a diverse record of New York fiction at the time. The series featured numerous luminaries of the NYC downtown ethos, including Jenny Holzer, Lynne Tillman, Laurie Anderson, and Kathy Acker.

Set of 26 individual first editions of Top Stories.