The Best American Short Stories 1971 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Martha Foley. The volume was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Background The series is considered one of the "best-known annual anthologies of short fiction""Short and Sweet" by Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 11/05/99, issue 511, page 73. and has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature."The Best American Short Stories of the Century," Publishers Weekly, 3/8/1999, volume 246, issue 10, page 47.
In particular, the Willa Cather Review wrote that The Best American Short Stories series "became a repository of values" for creative writing programs, college libraries, and literary magazines."'Long-Cellared Wine': 'Double Birthday,' Edward J. H. O'Brien, and the Best American Short Stories Series" by Timothy W. Bintrim and Scott Riner, Willa Cather Review, spring 2023, volume 64, issue 1, page 18. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the hundred-year anniversary of the series, noted that it eventually became an "institution" itself, often being taught in classrooms.
Short stories included AuthorStorySource1971Russell Banks"With Ché in New Hampshire"New American Review1971Hal Bennett"Dotson Gerber Resurrected"Playboy1971James Blake"The Widow, Bereft"Esquire1971Jack Cady"I Take Care of Things"The Yale Review1971Robert Canzoneri"Barbed Wire"The Southern Review1971Albert Drake"The Chicken Which Became a Rat"Northwest Review1971William Eastlake"The Dancing Boy"Evergreen Review1971Beth Harvor"Pain Was My Portion"The Hudson Review1971David Madden"No Trace"The Southern Review1971Don Mitchell"Diesel"Shenandoah1971Marion Montgomery"The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson"The Georgia Review1971Wright Morris"Magic"The Southern Review1971Philip F. O'Connor"The Gift Bearer"The Southern Review1971Tillie Olsen"Requa I"The Iowa Review1971Ivan Prashker"Shirt Talk"Harper's Magazine1971Norman Rush"In Late Youth"Epoch1971Danny Santiago"The Somebody"Redbook1971Jonathan Strong"Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One"TriQuarterly1971Leonard Tushnet"The Klausners"Prairie Schooner1971W. D. Valgardson"Bloodflowers"Tamarack Review1971L. Woiwode"The Suitor"McCall's
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