THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2007
Edited by Stephen King

T.C. BOYLE - Balto

JOSEPH EPSTEIN - My brother Eli
"Here we're happy just to make a living and get some kind of fix on reality. Our hands are full trying to cope with the world as it is. We don't waste a lot of time on the world as it ought to be."

"I'm sure there'll be a few more Mrs. Eli Blacks, all with numbers after their names, like ennobling suffixes."

STELLAR KIM - Findings & Impressions

RICHARD RUSSO - Empire Falls (won 2002 Pulitzer Prize)
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