Best American series.

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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources

Provincials

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Granta / Daniel Alarcón -- Bravery

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Tin house / Charles Baxter -- Malaria

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Bellevue literary review / Michael Byers -- Miss Lora

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New Yorker / Junot D́íaz -- Horned men

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ZYZZYVA / Karl Taro Greenfield -- Third dumpster

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Granta / Gish Jen -- Encounters with unexpected animals

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Esquire / Bret Anthony Johnston -- Magic man

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Yale review / Sheila Kohler -- Chair

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Paris review / David Means -- A voice in the night

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New Yorker / Steven Millhauser -- Referential

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New Yorker / Lorrie Moore -- Train

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Harper's magazine / Alice Munro -- Chapter two

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New Yorker / Antonya Nelson -- Nemecia

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Narrative magazine / Kristin Valdez Quade -- Philanthropy

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Granta / Suzanne Rivecca -- Semplica-girl diaries

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New Yorker / George Saunders -- World to come

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Jim Shepard -- Wilderness

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Threepenny review / Elizabeth Tallent -- Tunnel, or the news from Spain

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Glimmer train / Joan Wickersham -- Breatharians

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New Yorker / Callan Wink -- Contributors' notes -- Other distinguished stories of 2012 -- Editorial addresses of American and Canadian magazines publishing short stories