Article: THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES of the CENTURY.(Brief Article)(Review)

THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES of the CENTURY

JOHN UPDIKE

KATRINA KENISON

The best of the Best American Short Stories recaptures a glorious age of fiction writing.

Ambitious writers in this country stake their reputations on their Great American Novels -- Norman Mailer with his thousand-page tomes comes to mind -- but some have been content to practice their craft incrementally, producing beautifully wrought short stories through the years. Eudora Welty and John Cheever are exemplary, although American literature is crowded with masters of the genre, from Sherwood Anderson to Katherine Ann Porter to Raymond Carver to Joyce Carol ...

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