Books by Richard Russo
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review 1: The Best American Short Stories series is for better or worse directed towards a certain type of reader. The stories contained in the 2010 collection skew decisively towards those readers who enjoy literary fiction over genre based fiction. By the same hand, I can’t say that read...
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review 1: I thought this was a really, really great edition of Best American Short Stories. I think the highest hit-to-miss ratio of any collection I've read recently. Of special note were the following:- The Cousins: the older I get, the more time I spend thinking about frayed connections...
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review 1: FIRST LINE REVIEW: "Though the digital clock on the bedside table in his hotel room read 5:17, Jack Griffin, suddenly wide awake, knew me wouldn't be able to get back to sleep." And what I knew after reading the first 50 pages is that I should have honored my "50 page rule" and q...
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review 1: Reading the 2010 anthology (and simultaneously reading 2011's) was the first time I realized that the guest editor's curation makes a difference. Great characters, focus on well-done prose. Yay. Short stories!I really enjoyed Jennifer Egan's "Safari," "Delicate Edible Birds" by L...