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Wow. Clearly I‘m late on this, but I thought this collection was absolutely wonderful. I picked this up because it was edited and introduced by one of my favorite authors and I eat up anything that Junot Díaz does.

But it was such an enjoyable read. The stories are poignant, smart, incredibly creative. My favorites are Garments, Wonders of the Shore, The Great Silence, The Prospectors. Would highly recommend to lovers of the short story. 5⭐️

Cosmos!!! ❤️

We are all stardust ✨😊😊😊

Lovely sentence 👏🏼

And continuing the red theme.. Love Junot Diaz and his selections. These stories made me think, laugh, cry. And The Great Silence by Ted Chiang almost broke my heart.

I worried too that I did not care for books. Reading did not do to me what it did to my parents, agitating them or turning them into vague beings lost to time, who did not quite notice when I came or went. - Apollo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(2/2) now writes these words on the campus of MIT. - intro, Junot Díaz.

Maybe it's my Caribbean immigrant multiplicity, the incommensurate distances between the worlds I inhabit, but my life has always worked better when understood as a collection of short stories than anything else. Thing is, I'm all these strange pieces that don't assemble into anything remotely coherent. Hard for me to square that kid in Santo Domingo climbing avocado trees with the teen in Central NJ bringing a gun to school with the man who (1/2)

I really loved some of these. Like all short story collections, they did not all reach me in the same way. But over all I would recommend this collection. Great authors and a variety of genres and ideas.

@Traveler13 Thank you! I've been wanting to check out H is for Hawk. I was just on the hunt for more short stories so you pretty much read my mind. And I've been thinking of picking up To All the Boys I've Loved Before so I'm excited to have it! Thank you!!
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And thanks @BookishMarginalia for organizing all this!!

Good mix of stories and authors. I enjoyed this a lot!

This month's installment of One Story is right on! I love it when an innovative style and entertaining characters come together so well in a short story. The format follows that of an oral history of women boxers. Schaefer is set to publish a collection this year. 😊📚❤(Not included in the book tagged)

This one and few others from the series, including essays, science and mystery, are on sale today for Kindle.

The newest editions are $1.99 for kindle today. I stopped at 3 - for now. 😉

The latest entry is of high quality & although some stories didn't move me to the degree that others managed, there's not a single bad story in the collection. Highlights were pieces by C.N. Adichie, Ted Chiang, Louise Erdrich, Lauren Groff, Smith Henderson, Ben Marcus, Karen Russell, Hector Tobar & John Edgar Wideman. The best compliment one can give an anthology is leaving with a bigger TBR. This is definitely the case for me with this book

The first couple of stories felt very uneven, but then there was a long run of awesome. This is well worth the price of admission, several of the stories worth revisiting again and again.

Jonah hid under the blankets. A classic pout. Except that he wasn't a pouter, he wasn't a hider. He was a reserved boy who generally took a scientific interest in the tantrums and emotional extravagances of other children, marveling at them as though they were some strange form of street theater.-Ben Marcus

My contribution to recent Litsy posts about 90's music, courtesy of Lauren Groff's peculiar & fantastic story "For the God of Love, for the Love of God."

I just read & adored Louise Erdrich's story "The Flower." I've never read her work before. What would you recommend?

Ted Chiang

If the novel is our culture's favored literary form, upon which we heap all our dessicated literary laurels, if the novel is, say, our Jamie Lancaster, then the short story is our very own Tyrion: the disdained little brother, the perennial underdog. But what an underdog.-Junot Diaz introduction

And now we start reading this.

I didn't make it past the first chapter of Strangers in Their Own Land so I'm moving on to this.

THIS IS WHY I LOVE SHORT STORIES. This paragraph right here.

Finally! An advent calendar for book lovers 😍 http://www.shortstoryadventcalendar.com/

One of my fall traditions is picking up the new Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize stories. I read a couple every day and really savor them. Junot Diaz edited this edition of The Best American Short Stories and so far it is excellent with plenty of diverse voices.

Such a great collection of short stories in this edition. This story is narrated by Puerto Rican parrots and talk about the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 where my cousin works. Wheel meet House. Needed to read this after the debate to be reminded that love above all is life.

I have Diaz fever since I saw him speak. I really wanted to ask him: why do you depict Puerto Rican women so flawed? It's not a secret that Dominicans and P. R's have a interesting relationship. We see the differences in each other while others do not even see it. We are like siblings: same in many ways but begging to be different from each other. As a Puerto Rican woman I love Diaz, mostly because I get to explore these questions.

Browsing the book store while waiting for the plane... It's edited by Junot Díaz and includes a short story by Chimamanda Adichie... Yeah... I just don't have that much willpower!!

Got all of these back to 1986, and then have a scattered few back to ... I think it's 1932? Have read the last thirty years of them. Haven't the old-old ones yet. Louise Erdrich's has probably been my favorite. Excited for this one. Cool TOC by Diaz. Now let's see if the series editors have him good stuff to choose from or not ...

Coffee at my happy place (Bronte Bistro inside Joseph-Beth Booksellers) and the latest in the Best American Short Stories series😊

Today on the blog: The Best American Short Stories 2016 is out today and highly recommended. Junot Díaz & Heidi Pitlor have chosen 20 terrific stories diverse in setting, length, plot, and their authors' identities. You'll find both familiar names and new voices--it's a treat. #shortstories #diversebooks #wndb

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#somethingforsept #shortstories I'm about halfway through this collection and Junot Díaz has picked some *great* stories. #diversebooks

Updated: all fixed! Here's what I'm #readingoutside. #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge