Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Books in My Lobby 9


This week we have for you some Great American short stories. From Hawthorne to Hemingway. I didn't grab this one. But, what if I had? Then I'd be experiencing Amazon's mighty description firsthand:

"Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett’s portraits of rural Maine to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s brilliant tales from the Jazz Age, these stories span the breadth of the American experience."

Not that I don't love a good American story, but I already have a number of great anthologies that help scratch that story itch. Like The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. And The Complete short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Finca Vigia Edition. The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard. The Collected Stories of Richard Yates. Great Esquire Fiction: The Finest Stories from the First Fifty Years. And representing the ladies: Like Life, Stories by Lorrie Moore. That should do me for awhile.

3 comments:

Cynthia Sherrick said...

Perhaps someone is selecting certain books from their shelves and putting them in your lobby.... on purpose. Carefully placing them just so and waiting behind closed doors for you to take the bait.

Then they boot up their computer, click on the Unreliable Narrator, sit back, and wait for mention of "Books in my Lobby".

....Just a thought. ;]

Dell Smith said...

Consider the bait taken. Bring on the bait!

Cynthia Sherrick said...

Fun!! :)