I am all over these short stories featured in the Best American Short Stories Series. I am reading through the 2001 edition right now. I've read portions of the 2007, 2005, and 2003 editions and have been introduced to some incredible authors that are not right at the front of all the bookstores. In my opinion, the authors at the front of the stores, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, and Stephen King, do not write as well as some of the authors I've read in these collections like E.L. Doctorow, Andrea Barrett, and Rick Bass. I'll be raving about these stories all summer, but I just wanted to give props to these writers that really should be the bestselling authors, which some are, but are not appreciated by the book-buying public like they should. If you haven't read any of these yet, I encourage you to do so. You might want to start with the 2007 edition edited by Stephen King. King picked out some truly memorable reads.
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