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What Ails the Short Story
by possibly noteworthy at 5:01 pm EDT, Oct 6, 2007

Stephen King in NYT Book Review.

The American short story is alive and well.
Do you like the sound of that? Me too. I only wish it were actually true.
The art form is still alive — that I can testify to. As editor of “The Best American Short Stories 2007,” I read hundreds of them, and a great many were good stories. Some were very good. And some seemed to touch greatness.
But “well”? That’s a different story.