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Title: You'Ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe by Ron Hansen, Jim Shepard ISBN: 0-7857-6966-8 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Library Binding List Price(USD): $25.05

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Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Reading Writer's Writers
Comment: Architects and contractors can usually spot a good house; engineers and mechanics know good cars. So too with stories. Want to read some good ones? Ask the people that create them. This concept makes sense to me and I don't think you'll be disappointed. I did not like all the stories in this collection, but I think 90% are striking. Many are memorable. A few seem so original in conception they form a palpable presence in the mind.

Of the 35 stories, I was familiar with 21 of the authors, though I had previously read only a couple of the stories. Of the selectors/introducers, I had only heard of a dozen.

Dead white males do not seem to dominate this volume. If anything, there are a few too many chick stories that have no action beyond moving lips and go on interminably about feelings and relationships. Thankfully, the polar opposites are not represented here. (Those would be pure action stories peopled by brainless, unreflective stick men.) Happily, there are quite a few tales by the best who can strike a balance. Leo Tolstoy did this better than anybody and he does have an entry.

I will not further bore you with my favorites. Everybody takes up stories in their own way. Interestingly, I remember almost none of the introducers praise or criticism. But, collectively they pulled it off- this is a great anthology.

Rating: 5
Summary: Re:Whatever, in Delaware! I've Got A Great Idea
Comment: I know, let's go back to when ONLY WHITE MEN wrote and published stories that were ever anthologized, and how about only doing those by WHITE MEN who are AMERICAN and live in DELAWARE? since those are stories that might be good...?

Jerome Wilson's story is simply amazing, by the way, I've taught it for years to give my students hope.

Rating: 5
Summary: You've Got to Read This
Comment: Ashley Hammond: Thanks for liking "Paper Garden"!--Jerome Wilson