Best American short stories
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The best American short stories, 1953
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The best American short stories, 1954
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The best American short stories, 1955
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The best American short stories, 1956
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The best American short stories, 1957
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The best American short stories, 1958
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The best American short stories, 1959
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The best American short stories, 1960
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The best American short stories, 1961
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The best American short stories, 1962
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The best American short stories, 1963
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The best American short stories, 1964
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The best American short stories, 1965
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The best American short stories, 1966
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The best American short stories, 1967
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The best American short stories, 1968
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The best American short stories, 1969
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The best American short stories, 1970
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The best American short stories, 1971
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The best American short stories, 1972
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The best American short stories, 1973
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The best American short stories, 1974
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The best American short stories, 1975
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The best American short stories, 1976
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The best American short stories, 1977
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The best American short stories, 1978
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The best American short stories, 1979
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The best American short stories, 1980
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The best American short stories, 1981
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The best American short stories, 1982
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The best American short stories, 1983
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The best American short stories, 1984
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The best American short stories, 1985
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The best American short stories, 1986
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The best American short stories, 1987
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The best American short stories, 1988
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The best American short stories, 1989
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The best American short stories of the eighties
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The best American short stories, 1990
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The best American short stories, 1991
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The best American short stories, 1992
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The best American short stories, 1994
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The best American short stories, 1995
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The best American short stories, 1996
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The best American short stories, 1997
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[1999]
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"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty,...
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The best American short stories, 1999
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2001
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A collection of twenty American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 2000 and January 2001, selected for inclusion by guest editor Barbara Kingsolver, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 2000.
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The best American short stories, 2002
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The best American short stories, 2003
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The best American short stories, 2004
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The best American short stories, 2005
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c2006
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Since 1915 the Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected, and most popular, of its kind.
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The best American short stories, 2007
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The best American short stories, 2008
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The best American short stories, 2009
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The best American short stories, 2010
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The best American short stories 2012
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In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius...modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we are part of a tradition."
Boyle's choices of stories reflect a vibrant range of characters, from a numb wife who feels alive only in the presence of violence...
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2016.
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From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatship girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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2017
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"If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldnt go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome," writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here youll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend,...
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2019.
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“As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America’s rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client...
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2020.
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"'To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,' recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. 'They were windows into emotions I had and hadn't had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.' Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced...
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A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring...
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2022
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
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