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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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990
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English
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"These 20 stories were selected by series editor Ravenel from those printed in ... 'The Best American Short Stories' ... The variety of styles and themes in this collection ably reflects the talents and versatility of the short story writers of our day." Libr J.
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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, 1993
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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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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.
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The best American short stories, 1999
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The best American short stories, 2000
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The best American short stories, 2001
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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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The best American short stories, 2006
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The best American short stories, 2007
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The best American short stories, 2008
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2009
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English
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Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ("Chicago Tribune)." The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch)," ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best...
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The best American short stories, 2010
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2016.
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From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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©2017
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English
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"[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." - USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it" (San Francisco Chronicle ), making her the perfect person to helm this literary time capsule of a collection.?
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2019
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English
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#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.
“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,”...
“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,”...
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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 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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