The Best American Short Stories 1971
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The Best American Short Stories 1971

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The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Author</th> <th>(Originally <br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>With Che In New Hampshire</td> <td>Russell Banks</td> <td>(New American Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dotson Gerber Resurrected</td> <td>Hal Bennett</td> <td>(Playboy)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Widow, Bereft</td> <td>James Blake</td> <td>(Esquire)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>I Take Care Of Things</td> <td>Jack Cady</td> <td>(The Yale Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Barbed Wire</td> <td>Robert Canzoneri</td> <td>(The Southern Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Chicken Which Became A Rat</td> <td>Albert Drake</td> <td>(The Northwest Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Dancing Boy</td> <td>William Eastlake</td> <td>(Evergreen Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pain Was My Portion</td> <td>Beth Harvor</td> <td>(The Hudson Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>No Trace</td> <td>David Madden</td> <td>(The Southern Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Diesel</td> <td>Don Mitchell</td> <td>(Shenandoah)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson</td> <td>Marion Montgomery</td> <td>(The Georgia Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Magic</td> <td>Wright Morris</td> <td>(The Southern Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Gift Bearer</td> <td>Philip F. O'Connor</td> <td>(The Southern Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Requa I</td> <td>Tillie Olsen</td> <td>(The Iowa Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Shirt Talk</td> <td>Ivan Prashker</td> <td>(Harper's Magazine)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>In Late Youth</td> <td>Norman Rush</td> <td>(Epoch)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Somebody</td> <td>Danny Santiago</td> <td>(Redbook)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One</td> <td>Jonathan Strong</td> <td>(Triquarterly)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Klausners</td> <td>Leonard Tushnet</td> <td>(Prairie Schooner)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bloodflowers</td> <td>W. D. Valgardson</td> <td>(Tamarack Review)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Suitor</td> <td>L. Woiwode</td> <td>(Mccall's Magazine)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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