The Best American Short Stories (Best American Short Stories) (Best American Series (R)) (Best American)

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4.5 stars. Usually anthologies are a bit all over the place, but this one just kept building and building. I have a feeling if I had 100 stories, these would have been the twenty most memorable.

I picked it up for Nicole Krauss, “From the Desk of Daniel Varsky,” and Karen Russell, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” but would be hard pressed to even name a favorite now, they were all that good.

(I might have even been tempted to give it five stars, had I not just started reading Fitzgerald again. Damn you Fitzgerald and the way you make me lose faith in all other writing.)