A Guided Tour Through a Century of Literature

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2015

Celebrating the 100-year-anniversary of the seminal Best American Short Stories series, author Lorrie Moore and series editor Heidi Pitlor have compiled 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. A collection of the best of the best short stories of the last century, this book offer a guided tour through a century of literature, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Gaitskill and Junot Diaz.

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