Hortense Calisher, a virtuoso of the form, once called the short
story "an apocalypse in a teacup." It's a definition that suits the
remarkable stories published this year by three literary superstars, and
two dazzling newcomers with voices so distinctive we're likely to be
hearing from them again. These stories are intense, evocative delights
to be devoured singly when you have only a sliver of time, or savored in
batches, at leisure, on a winter weekend.
As a lagniappe, begin with
Object Lessons, a pairing of 20 contemporary authors with 20 potent classics from the pages of
The Paris Review.
Among
them: Dave Eggers on "Bangkok"; James Salter's time bomb of a
love-gone-bitter story; and Aleksandar Hemon on Jorge Luis Borges'
cosmic "Funes, the Memorious," about a man cursed with the inability to
forget anything.
Then move on to these five, my best collections of 2012:
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