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Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.

For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.”
These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write “as an aid to love-making.” Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen’s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver’s “minimalism,” a term he disliked, and Grace Paley’s “secular Yiddishkeit.” Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Díaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American.
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        An anthology of an anthology, packed with some of the best short fiction ever committed to print. Aficionados of the "Getting Things Done" system of time management will appreciate that Best American Short Stories founding editor Edward J. O'Brien was "almost pathologically organized," useful for dealing with the flood of stories he received on conceiving the annual prize volume. That was back when short stories, as the editors note, "were the preferred entertainment in the United States," not the currency of MFA workshops and suburban book clubs. Tastes change: there's a world of difference between Ring Lardner and Jamaica Kincaid, and if the two might have enjoyed a conversation, the editors might have commented a touch more about how the short story genre has evolved in the century since O'Brien got to work. For the moment, it's worth marveling at how Edna Ferber's "The Gay Old Dog" reflects a world gone by in its very title, an age of "loop-hounds," kerchiefs, and waistcoats; one wonders whether George Saunders' postmodernly busy "The Semplica-Girl Diaries" will seem similarly fusty a century from now, whether Robert Stone's evocations of the Vietnam War will have any meaning then. There are classic and even some canonical pieces in the book and plenty of big names from Hemingway and Cheever to Munro and Oates, and if there are no surprises here-after all, they're known prizewinners, with all the baggage good and ill that prizes carry-an aspiring writer could do worse than have this as a handbook. Some standouts: Sherman Alexie's sharply observed portrait of Skid Row ("Rose of Sharon, Junior, and I carried our $20 bill and our five dollars in loose change over to the 7-Eleven and bought three bottles of imagination"); Akhil Sharma's portrait of Indian immigrant life, "If You Sing Like That for Me"; and Moore's highly entertaining if refractive introduction. Though certainly not the last word on American short fiction, a collection of uncommonly high value.

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        What distinguishes this collection from The Best American Short Stories of the Century, published 15 years ago? Granted, it's got stories by greats like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, though it doesn't repeat a single piece from the previous work. But the editors aimed to attract a younger, more diverse audience with younger, more diverse voices, ranging from Mary Gaitskill, Junot Diaz, and Jhumpa Lahiri to ZZ Packer, Sherman Alexie, and Nathan Englander. A 30,000-copy first printing, though note that The Best American Short Stories of the Century has sold nearly 150,000 copies in hardcover.

        Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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