Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary "antenna for what is going on in the world" ( Chicago Tribune) . The collection boasts great variety from "famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch) , ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.
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2008:
"[T]he stories are a sort of antenna for what is going on in the world....Even topical stories are of enduring quality , and the same is true for several other stories that wrestle with contemporary religion and faith." -- Chicago Tribune
"How good there's was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question - what is an American story? - is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."-- USA Today
"[T]he stories are a sort of antenna for what is going on in the world....Even topical stories are of enduring quality , and the same is true for several other stories that wrestle with contemporary religion and faith." -- Chicago Tribune
"How good there's was at assembling this anthology: a variety of writers, famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Rushdie acknowledges, 'Okay: So I'm not an American' and then goes on to write, 'An old question - what is an American story? - is given a new lease on life in our interconnected, migratory, suspicious, troubled age.' His selections fit the bill."-- USA Today