The Best American Short Stories 1996
{{Short description|1996 short story collection}}
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| name = The Best American Short Stories 1996
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| image =File:TheBestAmericanShortStories1996.jpg
| editor = Katrina Kenison and John Edgar Wideman
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| language = English
| series = The Best American Short Stories
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| published = 1996
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
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| isbn = 0395752914
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| preceded_by = The Best American Short Stories 1995
| followed_by = The Best American Short Stories 1997
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The Best American Short Stories 1996, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor John Edgar Wideman.Kennison, Katrina and Wideman, John Edgar (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1996, New York, 1996.Three collections offer surprises, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sept 28, 1997Chicago Tribune, Jan. 5, 1997
Short stories included
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! Author !! Story !! Source | ||
| Alice Adams | "Complicities" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Rick Bass | "Fires" | Big Sky Journal |
| Jason Brown | "Driving the Heart" | Mississippi Review |
| Robert Olen Butler | "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" | The New Yorker |
| Lan Samantha Chang | "The Eve of the Spirit Festival" | Prairie Schooner |
| Dan Chaon | "Fitting Ends" | TriQuarterly |
| Peter Ho Davies | "The Silver Screen" | Harvard Review |
| Junot Díaz | "Ysrael" | Story |
| Stephen Dixon | "Sleep" | Harpers Magazine |
| Stuart Dybek | "Paper Lantern" | The New Yorker |
| Deborah Galyan | "The Incredible Appearing Man" | Missouri Review |
| Mary Gordon | "Intertextuality" | The Recorder |
| David Huddle | "Past My Future" | Story |
| Anna Keesey | "Bright Winter" | Grand Street |
| Jamaica Kincaid | "In Roseau" | The New Yorker |
| William Henry Lewis | "Shades" | Ploughshares |
| William Lychack | "A Stand of Fables" | Quarterly West |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Ghost Girls" | American Short Fiction |
| Angela Patrinos | "Sculpture I" | The New Yorker |
| Susan Perabo | "Some Say the Word" | TriQuarterly |
| Lynn Sharon Schwartz | "The Trip to Halawa Valley" | Shenandoah |
| Akhil Sharma | "If You Sing Like That for Me" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jean Thompson | "All Shall Love Me and Despair" | Mid-American Review |
| Melanie Rae Thon | "Xmas, Jamaica Plain" | Ontario Review |
References
{{The Best American Series}}
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