YEARS OF BASS

Contents – The Best American Short Stories 1987

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The Way We Live Now -Susan Sontag-The New Yorker, November 24 1986 The Afterlife - John Updike-The New Yorker, September 15 1986 The...

The Best American Short Stories 1987 - Introduction

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I have yet to decide on a reason that would seem satisfactory even for me as to why it has been so long since I have updated. I will...

Best American Stories 1986 – Completed!

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Goodbye to the Best American Stories 1986 Some numbers – To read and report on these stories it took me 5 months and 1 day. T...

The Rich Brother – Tobias Wolff

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I was happy to finish this volume of The BASS with a story from Wolff. I really enjoy his writing. Speaking of finishing…man…what a str...

Health – Joy Williams

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“Williams's fiction often portrays life as a downward spiral, and the failure of life in America, from a spiritual as well as eco...

Lawns – Mona Simpson

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This was a hell of a read. First, researching the author and finding her connection to Steve Jobs (Apple) and one of the writers for th...

Telling – Grace Paley

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Here we come across another story by Grace Paley. My first encounter with her can be found here . This was a difficult story...
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