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The Best American Short Stories 2016
The Best American Short Stories 2016 | Junot Daz
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The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Daz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and magnetic voices in contemporary fiction: limber, streetwise, caffeinated and wonderfully eclectic" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) to the collection.
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LitLogophile
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Wow. Clearly I‘m late on this, but I thought this collection was absolutely wonderful. I picked this up because it was edited and introduced by one of my favorite authors and I eat up anything that Junot Díaz does.

But it was such an enjoyable read. The stories are poignant, smart, incredibly creative. My favorites are Garments, Wonders of the Shore, The Great Silence, The Prospectors. Would highly recommend to lovers of the short story. 5⭐️

vivastory I really loved this one, especially Diaz's introduction 7y
LitLogophile Yes, I loved Diaz‘s intro! @vivastory 7y
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LitLogophile
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Cosmos!!! ❤️

We are all stardust ✨😊😊😊

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LitLogophile
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Lovely sentence 👏🏼

Lindy Indeed. 😊 7y
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Tonton
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And continuing the red theme.. Love Junot Diaz and his selections. These stories made me think, laugh, cry. And The Great Silence by Ted Chiang almost broke my heart.

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LitLogophile

I worried too that I did not care for books. Reading did not do to me what it did to my parents, agitating them or turning them into vague beings lost to time, who did not quite notice when I came or went. - Apollo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

DrexEdit This is the most amazing collection of authors/stories! I'm loving it! 😊 💜 7y
LitLogophile I love it, too! I just got it yesterday and I can't put it down. @DrexEdit 7y
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LitLogophile

(2/2) now writes these words on the campus of MIT. - intro, Junot Díaz.

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LitLogophile

Maybe it's my Caribbean immigrant multiplicity, the incommensurate distances between the worlds I inhabit, but my life has always worked better when understood as a collection of short stories than anything else. Thing is, I'm all these strange pieces that don't assemble into anything remotely coherent. Hard for me to square that kid in Santo Domingo climbing avocado trees with the teen in Central NJ bringing a gun to school with the man who (1/2)

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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I really loved some of these. Like all short story collections, they did not all reach me in the same way. But over all I would recommend this collection. Great authors and a variety of genres and ideas.

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beccaeve
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@Traveler13 Thank you! I've been wanting to check out H is for Hawk. I was just on the hunt for more short stories so you pretty much read my mind. And I've been thinking of picking up To All the Boys I've Loved Before so I'm excited to have it! Thank you!!
#SummerSantaGoesPostal
#SummerSolsticeBookExchange
And thanks @BookishMarginalia for organizing all this!!

BookishMarginalia 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 7y
Traveler13 Yay!! I hope you enjoy them all! 7y
CrowCAH Great bookish goodies!!! 📚 7y
beccaeve @Traveler13 thank you! I'm sure I will 😊 7y
beccaeve @CrowCAH 😀 📚 7y
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Kathrin
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Good mix of stories and authors. I enjoyed this a lot!

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Lacythebookworm
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This month's installment of One Story is right on! I love it when an innovative style and entertaining characters come together so well in a short story. The format follows that of an oral history of women boxers. Schaefer is set to publish a collection this year. 😊📚❤(Not included in the book tagged)

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Lola
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This one and few others from the series, including essays, science and mystery, are on sale today for Kindle.

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Soozanne
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The newest editions are $1.99 for kindle today. I stopped at 3 - for now. 😉

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echristopherclark
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The first couple of stories felt very uneven, but then there was a long run of awesome. This is well worth the price of admission, several of the stories worth revisiting again and again.

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echristopherclark
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And now we start reading this.

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kristiisbreezy
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I didn't make it past the first chapter of Strangers in Their Own Land so I'm moving on to this.

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Stefani
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THIS IS WHY I LOVE SHORT STORIES. This paragraph right here.

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BookHermit
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Finally! An advent calendar for book lovers 😍 http://www.shortstoryadventcalendar.com/

Eyelit That sounds awesome! 8y
the.bookish.valkyrie That's fantastic! How has this not been a thing before?! 8y
Hooked_on_books So cool! Thanks for posting--I just ordered mine. 😬 8y
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BookHermit @Hooked_on_books I bought a craft beer advent calendar for my husband last year so I think I might just order this for myself, too. You know, on his behalf 😉 8y
BookHermit @Valkyrie923 The first one was in 2015! Such a cool idea! 8y
Gleefulreader Mine just arrived and I can't open the box or I will cheat and start reading before December! 8y
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badnorthern
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One of my fall traditions is picking up the new Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize stories. I read a couple every day and really savor them. Junot Diaz edited this edition of The Best American Short Stories and so far it is excellent with plenty of diverse voices.

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Notafraidofwords
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Such a great collection of short stories in this edition. This story is narrated by Puerto Rican parrots and talk about the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 where my cousin works. Wheel meet House. Needed to read this after the debate to be reminded that love above all is life.

BookishFeminist ❤️❤️❤️ 8y
MemoirsForMe 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 8y
BB1958 I always start my reading of these collections by seeing what the guest editor has to say about the stories he or she has selected. Junior Diaz's comments about Caille Millner's story took me there- and I was not disappointed. Look forward to reading the rest. 8y
Notafraidofwords @BB1958 agree 😄 completely. 8y
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Notafraidofwords
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I have Diaz fever since I saw him speak. I really wanted to ask him: why do you depict Puerto Rican women so flawed? It's not a secret that Dominicans and P. R's have a interesting relationship. We see the differences in each other while others do not even see it. We are like siblings: same in many ways but begging to be different from each other. As a Puerto Rican woman I love Diaz, mostly because I get to explore these questions.

ReadingEnvy You could tweet him the question! 8y
Notafraidofwords @ReadingEnvy I guess I can. When I saw him at his reading event he actually said that he replies to emails too. So I can do that. 8y
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Kathrin
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Browsing the book store while waiting for the plane... It's edited by Junot Díaz and includes a short story by Chimamanda Adichie... Yeah... I just don't have that much willpower!!

Graciouswarriorprincess I love this series! 8y
Kathrin @Graciouswarriorprincess Me too. I also have the 💯 best short stories on my Kindle, just haven't gotten around to it yet. 8y
Graciouswarriorprincess @Kathrin I have that one too!👍😀 8y
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SGJ
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Got all of these back to 1986, and then have a scattered few back to ... I think it's 1932? Have read the last thirty years of them. Haven't the old-old ones yet. Louise Erdrich's has probably been my favorite. Excited for this one. Cool TOC by Diaz. Now let's see if the series editors have him good stuff to choose from or not ...

Kathrin Hey... maybe that's something for @TheNextBook ?? 8y
PatriciaU I haven't read these in years! When I a teenage library page, I used to sneak back to the 800's and read these when it was slow. 8y
Graciouswarriorprincess I love this series! 8y
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SharonGoforth
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Coffee at my happy place (Bronte Bistro inside Joseph-Beth Booksellers) and the latest in the Best American Short Stories series😊

Notafraidofwords Is this one out already? 8y
SharonGoforth @Notafraidofwords Yes (at least in Cincinnati). The bookstore had a display of them so I picked it up. Lots of great authors! 8y
Notafraidofwords @SharonGoforth totally on my list. Thanks ! 8y
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CarolynOliver
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Today on the blog: The Best American Short Stories 2016 is out today and highly recommended. Junot Díaz & Heidi Pitlor have chosen 20 terrific stories diverse in setting, length, plot, and their authors' identities. You'll find both familiar names and new voices--it's a treat. #shortstories #diversebooks #wndb

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CarolynOliver
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#somethingforsept #shortstories I'm about halfway through this collection and Junot Díaz has picked some *great* stories. #diversebooks

read_diverse_books I didn't know he had this anthology! Thanks. I love Junot Diaz. 8y
CarolynOliver @read_diverse_books It comes out on Tuesday! His introduction is great too. 8y
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CarolynOliver
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Updated: all fixed! Here's what I'm #readingoutside. #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge

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