Monday, June 13, 2005

2005 book 70

david sedaris, ed. children playing before a statue of hercules
david sedaris has pretty great taste in short stories. this anthology, created to raise funds for 826nyc, is basically sedaris' random assortment of favorite stories--i picked it up because some of my own favorite stories (the ones by lorrie moore, jhumpa lahiri, and jincy willett) appear and i figured if i already loved three of the seventeen, odds were high i'd enjoy the rest. and i did. i was especially pleased that richard yates appeared--i've been haunted by his novel revolutionary road since i read it a couple years ago--and by the pairing of katherine mansfield and alice munro (whose selection references mansfield's). i haven't been in much of a short story mood over the past few months, but i plowed through this book and really, really liked it.

4 comments:

pinky pinkerson said...

glad you liked it - I've been meaning to read this one!

Alicia K. said...

i can lend it to you, if you want. :)

pinky pinkerson said...

I do want!

(you're awesome)

Alicia K. said...

ok, i'll try and remember to bring it to campus tomorrow!