Archive for August 27th, 2010
The Best American Short Stories 2010
Every year it seems fewer and fewer newspapers review Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Short Stories. That’s a shame.
This year, I’ll be reviewing The Best American Short Stories 2010 for The Boston Globe. I reviewed the 2008 anthology, edited by Salman Rushdie, for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I reviewed Alice Sebold’s inferior 2009 edition for The News & Observer (of Raleigh North Carolina.) This time the series editor is Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo.
I hope this collection is better than last year’s.
Here’s what’s coming in BASS 2010:
STEVE ALMOND: “Donkey Greedy, Donkey Get Punched,” Tin House
MARLIN BARTON: “Into Silence,” Sewanee Review 
CHARLES BAXTER: “The Cousins,” Tin House
JENNIFER EGAN: “Safari,” The New Yorker
DANIELLE EVANS: “Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s Nowhere to Go,” A Public Space
JOSHUA FERRIS: “The Valetudinarian,” The New Yorker
LAUREN GROFF: “Delicate Edible Birds,” Glimmer Train
WAYNE HARRISON: “Least Resistance,” The Atlantic Monthly
JAMES LASDUN: The Hollow,” The Paris Review
REBECCA MAKKAI: “Painted Ocean, Painted Ship,” Ploughshares
BRENDAN MATTHEWS: “My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer,” Cincinnati Review
JILL MCCORKLE: “PS,” The Atlantic Monthly
KEVIN MOFFETT: “Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events,” McSweeney’s
TÉA OBREHT: “The Laugh,” The Atlantic Monthly
LORI OSTLUND: “All Boy,” The New England Review
RON RASH: “The Ascent” Tin House
KAREN RUSSELL: “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach” Tin House
JIM SHEPARD: “The Netherlands Lives With Water,” McSweeney’s
MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD: “Cowboy Tango,” The Virginia Quarterly Review
WELLS TOWER: “Raw Water,” McSweeney’s
