Looking forward to spending some time with these girls.
My collection of Glimmer Train Stories on Flickr.
“One of the things I feel strongly about is that while short stories often tell us things we don’t know anything about – and this is good, of course – they should also, and maybe more importantly, tell us what everybody knows but what nobody is talking about. At least not publicly. Except for the short story writers.”
-Raymond Carver in his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 1986.
John Gardner
A new seriousness seems to have settled over North American short fiction. I don’t know for sure what the reasons are. I suspect our culture, or at least a segment of it may finally be tiring of the self-consciously trivial artistic practice Americans favored in the age when we wanted to seem as wearily elegant and intelligent as post –World War I Europeans-…
From his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 1982
http://yearsofbass.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction-john-gardner.html
http://yearsofbass.blogspot.com/2010/04/best-american-short-stories-1982.html
Forgotten author Friday - Konrad Bercovici. Born in Romania, moved to the Lower East Side in Manhattan, worked in sweatshops -then- hung out with Hemingway and Fitzgerald - in 1947 slapped Charlie Chaplin with a plagiarism lawsuit. Also included in The Best American Short Story series 6 times.
The Best American Short Stories spreadsheet 1915-2011
A workbook I created listing every author featured in “The Best American Short Stories” from 1915-2011. Sheets included in the workbook also feature year of publication, the original literary magazine where the story was first published (if found), the number of appearances by a particular author in The Best American series, and a sorted sheet with the author and each of their works. –Geek out!
The BASS - ‘69,’70,’71,’72,’75 and ‘77 on Flickr.
“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
