The Best American Short Stories 1978 Author:Anthology During the past 10 years of editing America Review, Ted Solotaroff has seen and published a good deal of short fiction. "I am disposed," says Mr. Solotaroff, "toward stories with a strong narrative movement that clearly gets somewhere, preferably to a point that is both unpredictable and right - a bull's-eye at 400 yards rather than 400 feet. ... more »Whether a story deals with a subject as large as the Holocaust, such as Leslie Epstein's 'Skaters on Wood,' or as small as the mute grief of a salt-of-the-earth working man, such as Mary Ann Malinchk Rishel's 'Staus,' I want the writer to do justice to it and not dirt, to enrich my awareness of the life he or she is writing about and not cheapen or twist it..."
This is what each of these stories manages to do. Though coming from different directions, they are some 21 arrows that strike at the heart of our days and ways.« less