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Oct012007

The BASS King

DateMonday, October 1, 2007 at 10:37AM

BestAmerStories2007TP.jpg I have been following the BASS collection (Best American Short Stories) for a few years now. I just picked up the latest edition that has already caused a bit of a stir with the literary elite mucky-muck types. The reason? Stephen King has edited the 2007 collection.

I've said before, maybe even on this blog, that while I don't read much King these days, I admire the guy. I think he is one helluva storyteller and fairly straightshooter. The shooting I am talking about is his book On Writing. It's not Gardner's Art of Fiction, but it doesn't pretend to be. And anyone who has read it will see why King would make an excellent editor for BASS. King writes in his own genre, but he sure doesn't only read in it. He has a list of great books that he has recently read (though I do wonder how recently, since the list is massive) - and the list is enough to make any academic drool. Does that make sense, do academics drool?

But the beauty of the list is that he places J.K Rowling right against DeLillo or Flannery O'Conner. Tolkein is in there with Faulkner and McCarthy.

I've dug into the collection and have been loving the collection of King is calling, "some kick-ass stories".
A breath of fresh air amidst the dusty tomes of literary snooty-ness.

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