Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it, we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, buy it lunch. But we seem to have less in common these days. It is a bit of an embarrassment. The short story is earnest and intense as always. It is hard to tell it that movies are more fun. And there are other reasons for unease: the short story is a financial failure and its domestic life is a mess. Most of the old mass magazines that once made room...
...called little magazines remain hospitable. But they are remote, academic and, well, little. Harper's and the Atlantic still keep the faith, as do The New Yorker and a few others. Then there are acts of ritual: the two leading short-story anthologies that publish what their editors deem the worthiest efforts of the previous year. The Best American Short Stories 1978 is the first edition in 37 years not edited by Martha Foley, who died in 1977. The final selections were made by Solotaroff. It is an outstanding collection with at least two stories that continue to reverberate...
...BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES...
...Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent and deceptively lighthearted evocation of a woman's fantasies about Elvis Presley. Hecht strikes the right balance of irony, nostalgia and affection for a time when Presley and the short story itself were still in full bloom...
Granted the dizzying diversity of looks in the gallery of past Chief Executives, how is anyone to know what an ideal President should look like? The odd truth is that Americans do know. But how? What picture of a President resides in the popular imagination? What, in short, is the operating archetype...