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Anthologies tend to lend themselves to filler, but not one of the stories included in The Best American Short Stories disappoints. In a year of monster tomes--Don DeLillo's Underworld, Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles--this collection shows that the short story promises to outlive the long novel for good reason...
...years I have been into computers. I remember my family's firstmachine: an Apple IIe. My favorite digital pastime was playing "Dr. J. vs. Larry Bird" and breaking the backboard with a slam dunk so the little cleanup man would come out with his squeaky cart to clean it up like onWoody Woodpecker. But I digress...
Each Thanksgiving the National Turkey Federation presents a turkey to the President. The tale behind this year's bird...
...American traditions. While his American and Japanese comrades aboard the Space shuttle Columbia chowed down on seasonal fare of off-the-shelf processed turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie Thursday, Ukranian cosmonaut Leonid Kadenyuk opted instead for ? blasphemer! ? a nice juicy steak. NASA had conveniently stashed an extra processed bird in case Kadenyuk changed his mind...
...little Golden Age continues. Folks are feeling prosperous ? and of course if enough people think they're prosperous, that means they are. That's Economics 101. Maybe on Thanksgiving, you might consider springing for a really big bird...