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Book cover for "The best American short stories 2019".
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2019
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English
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Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
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," writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best...
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Pub. Date:
[1999]
Language:
English
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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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Publisher:
HMH Books
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
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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Publisher:
, Mariner Books
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
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. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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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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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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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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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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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
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. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
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.
Book cover for "The Best American Short Stories 2012".
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Mariner Books
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
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Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher:
Mariner Books
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
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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,...
Book cover for "The Best American short stories 2017".
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Book cover for "The best American short stories 2007".
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Book cover for "The best American short stories, 2004".
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date:
[2004]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The best American short stories 2011".
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Book cover for "The best American short stories, 1970".
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Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date:
[1970]
Language:
English