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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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
xxii, 295 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"Again, with this 1984 volume, the best continue to select the 'Best.' This year the leading American fiction writer serving as guest editor is John Updike, and his choices reflect the variety and vigor that has returned to the American short story in this decade."
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The best American short stories, 1986
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987.
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xviii, 334 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A mixture of the works of new writers and well-known talents, this anthology of outstanding short stories features fiction by Margaret Atwood, Sue Miller, and authors whose works appeared in literary magazines or large-circulaton periodicals.
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The best American short stories, 1988
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The best American short stories of the eighties
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The best American short stories, 1991
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The best American short stories, 1993
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
xviii, 366 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1996]
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xx, 363 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Mary Gordon, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Adams, and Jamaica Kincaid. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1995.
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1997]
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xvii, 381 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A compilation of twenty-four American short stories by authors such as Carolyn Cooke, Leonard Michaels, Clyde Edgerton, and Tobias Wolff. Includes a list of 100 additional notable stories from 1996.
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The best American short stories, 1998
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
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xxviii, 410 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
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xvi, 381 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A compilation of twenty-one American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 1999 and January 2000, selected for inclusion by guest editor E.L. Doctorow, with contributors' notes, and a list of one hundred additional distinguished stories of 1999.
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The best American short stories, 2001
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
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xviii, 375 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A compilation of twenty American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 2001 and January 2002, selected for inclusion by guest editor Sue Miller.
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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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xviii, 347 pages ; 21 cm
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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 American....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
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xix, 421 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of "enduring quality" (Chicago Tribune) this year.
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HMH Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
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 magazines, journals, and websites. 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
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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“As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,” writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. “It’s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.” The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year's Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction.
"I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world."...
"I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed," writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world."...
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"Twenty masterfully crafted short stories" by T.C. Boyle, Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and more: "Outstanding and well worth the read." —Booklist (starred review)
"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...
"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...
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Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
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 portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences,...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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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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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
"Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xxvi, 373 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that 'buzz with their own strange logic.' A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--