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A review by davenash
The Best American Short Stories 2016 by Heidi Pitlor, Junot Díaz
1.0
There were three short stories in the collection that I enjoyed:
"For the love of God, for the love of God" by Lauren Groff - I've enjoyed her other stories as well.
"Wonders of the Shore" by Andrea Barret
"Gifted" by Sharon Solowitz.
What I didn't like about the collection was everything else. I feel like the short story in every issue of the New Yorker is better than most of these and the one New Yorker story they picked wasn't that great. Most of the stories specialty in the front of the Paris Review are better than these. There was nothing avante garde or new about the other stories selected. They were just the product of the work shop process.
"For the love of God, for the love of God" by Lauren Groff - I've enjoyed her other stories as well.
"Wonders of the Shore" by Andrea Barret
"Gifted" by Sharon Solowitz.
What I didn't like about the collection was everything else. I feel like the short story in every issue of the New Yorker is better than most of these and the one New Yorker story they picked wasn't that great. Most of the stories specialty in the front of the Paris Review are better than these. There was nothing avante garde or new about the other stories selected. They were just the product of the work shop process.