I’m on my third reading of the introduction.   I have started reading the stories, and am about ½ way through the collection, but as you can...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/books/12solotaroff.html

Excuses are like... This is turning out to be more about my excuses for not writing and posting than actual reading and writing. I sup...

The reading of stories from the BASS 1978 is going well. Overall story quality after first readings – average. No real stan...

Listed below are the contents: The Best American Short Stories 1978 ed. Ted Solotaroff & Shannon Ravenel xiii • Introduction • Ted S...

There it is, The Best American Short Story anthology of 1978. I was a worried that I would have difficulty finding a copy. ...

I think a longer introduction to this exercise is needed to really pull out the reasons behind why I am attempting to read all of these stor...