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The Best American Short Stories 2020
The Best American Short Stories 2020 | Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld
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To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time, recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. They were windows into emotions I had and hadnt had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships. Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this years edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE EMMA CLINE MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE ELIZABETH McCRACKEN ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH KEVIN WILSON and others
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The Best American Short Stories 2020 | Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld
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Maybe I just don‘t share Curtis Sittenfeld‘s taste, but these don‘t feel like last year‘s best. Lots of self-absorbed characters with seemingly little at stake. Faves: Selena Anderson‘s “Godmother Tea,” magical realism and snappy language from a soul food-cooking ancestor as Joy (*irony*) grapples with identity, adulthood, friends, ex-lover. And urgency of “The Hands of Dirty Children” by Alejandro Puyana, homeless children in Caracas. 2020

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The Best American Short Stories 2020 | Heidi Pitlor, Curtis Sittenfeld
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