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Still my favorite series of short stories every year. Adored "Community Life" by Lorrie Moore which I read this morning.
Reviewing an anthology can be tough, especially when its one with as diverse a history as "The American Best Short Stories" series. Each volume really has its own little personality that depends heavily on the guest editor. The 1992 volume has been built by Robert Stone, an author about whom I know absolutely nothing. I read this edition because it was chronologically next in the series as I'm reading them (I started with the 1988 edition), so I had little expectation concerning how this collect...
A strong collection of stories, the stand outs to me were Emergency by Denis Johnson, Community Life by Lorrie Moore, Fare to the Moon by Reynolds Price and Days of Heaven by Rick Bass
Days of heaven Rick Bass.A Good scent from a strange mountain Robert Olen Butler.The Pugilist at rest Thom Jones. Community life Lorrie Moore
While this volume of the Best American Short Stories includes some clunkers, it also includes some of my all-time favorite stories, including “Emergency” by Denis Johnson and “Silver Water” by Amy Bloom. Many also love Robert Olen Butler’s “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” the title story from his Pulitzer Prize winning book, but it is not among my favorites. Other stand outs include “Community” by Lorrie Moore and “The Pugilist at Rest” by Thom Jones. 1991 must have been a good year for f...
Some good. Some fine. Some mediocre.
This one took me more than twice as long as any previous edition to finish. I'm not sure why -- it's actually among the best BASS collections I've read. The best of this edition:Denis Johnson - "Emergency"Mavis Gallant - "Across the Bridge"David Foster Wallace - "Forever Overhead"Tobias Wolff - "Firelight"Kate Wheeler - "Under the Roof"Joyce Carol Oates - "Is Laughter Contagious?" Honorable mentions:Rick Bass - "Days of Heaven"Robert Olen Butler - "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"Thom Jones...
WoofOr, How I Became Concerned About The Goodreads Reviewers of TBASS, Especially of this VolumeWhen I was younger my parents found me a wonderful book of young authors writing about writing and it is very inspirational. The Very Telling, Conversations with American Writers. It's incredible, check it out. This book was like the opposite of that. I'm being a little too negative here, since the book ends on such a downer note. I didn't read the last two stories, and the one before I hated for all
1993 notebook: the usual - Munro, Wolf etc. includes writers' comments on the stories, a list of 100 other great stories, and editorial addresses of a good 100 American and Canadian magazines. A gold mine.
