Title: The Best American Short Stories 1971
Description: The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology:
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    <th>Title</th>
    <th>Author</th>
    <th>(Originally <br>Published In)</th>
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    <td>With Che In New Hampshire</td>
    <td>Russell Banks</td>
    <td>(New American Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Dotson Gerber Resurrected</td>
    <td>Hal Bennett</td>
    <td>(Playboy)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Widow, Bereft</td>
    <td>James Blake</td>
    <td>(Esquire)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>I Take Care Of Things</td>
    <td>Jack Cady</td>
    <td>(The Yale Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Barbed Wire</td>
    <td>Robert Canzoneri</td>
    <td>(The Southern Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Chicken Which Became A Rat</td>
    <td>Albert Drake</td>
    <td>(The Northwest Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Dancing Boy</td>
    <td>William Eastlake</td>
    <td>(Evergreen Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Pain Was My Portion</td>
    <td>Beth Harvor</td>
    <td>(The Hudson Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>No Trace</td>
    <td>David Madden</td>
    <td>(The Southern Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Diesel</td>
    <td>Don Mitchell</td>
    <td>(Shenandoah)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Decline and Fall of Officer Fergerson</td>
    <td>Marion Montgomery</td>
    <td>(The Georgia Review)</td>
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    <td>Magic</td>
    <td>Wright Morris</td>
    <td>(The Southern Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Gift Bearer</td>
    <td>Philip F. O'Connor</td>
    <td>(The Southern Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Requa I</td>
    <td>Tillie Olsen</td>
    <td>(The Iowa Review)</td>
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    <td>Shirt Talk</td>
    <td>Ivan Prashker</td>
    <td>(Harper's Magazine)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>In Late Youth</td>
    <td>Norman Rush</td>
    <td>(Epoch)</td>
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    <td>The Somebody</td>
    <td>Danny Santiago</td>
    <td>(Redbook)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Xavier Fereira's Unfinished Book: Chapter One</td>
    <td>Jonathan Strong</td>
    <td>(Triquarterly)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Klausners</td>
    <td>Leonard Tushnet</td>
    <td>(Prairie Schooner)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Bloodflowers</td>
    <td>W. D. Valgardson</td>
    <td>(Tamarack Review)</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>The Suitor</td>
    <td>L. Woiwode</td>
    <td>(Mccall's Magazine)</td>
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