THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2011 edited by Geraldine Brooks
This year’s editor of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2011 is Geraldine Brooks, an accomplished journalist and fiction writer. She says of her selections “that the easiest and the first choices were the stories to which I had a physical response.” I would agree that the best stories in this collection are those that are most visceral and physical in nature. Ms. Brooks also states that “In the end, the stories I fell upon with perhaps the greatest delight were the outliers, the handful or so that defied the overwhelming gravitational pull toward small-canvas contemporary realism.”
October 5, 2011
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THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR by Allegra Goodman
One of Goodman’s favorite authors is Jane Austen and it shows in her subtle, wryly witty social comedies. This latest takes place on both coasts between 1999 and 2002 and centers on two California sisters: responsible, ambitious, principled Emily and flighty, vegan, philosophical Jess. The title character, though deceased, plays a beguiling role in the plot.
August 21, 2010
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Tags: 21st-Century, Allegra Goodman, Hasidic Life, Jane Austen, Life Choices, Sisters В· Posted in: 2010 Favorites, California