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GOLD IPPY (INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER) IN THE ANTHOLOGY CATEGORY In his introduction toThe Best American Short Stories 2008, Salman Rushdie calledEcotone one of a handful of journals on which "the health of the American short story depends." Now at the close of an award-winning first decade, the magazine has established itself as a preeminent venue for original short fiction from both recognized and emerging writers, with more than twenty stories from sixteen issues reprinted or noted in the Best American, New Stories from the South, Pushcart, and PEN/O. Henry series. With the publication of this anthology, Lookout Books makes a permanent home for the vital work ofEcotoneregular contributors Steve Almond, Rick Bass, Edith Pearlman, Ron Rash, Bill Roorbach, and Brad Watson, along with rising talents Lauren Groff, Ben Stroud, and Kevin Wilson, among others. In keeping with the magazine's mission to reimagine place, the collection explores transitional zones, the spaces where we are most threatened and alive. From a city fallen silent to a doomed nineteenth-century ship, from a startling birth in the woods to the bog burial of an adored archaeologist, from the loop of hair in a drowned trader's locket to the sanctity of pointy boots in a war zone, these stories make beautiful noise of our most fundamental human longings.… (plus d'informations)
Grounded in place, many of these stories are both unique and transporting, strong statements to the quality of fiction presented in Ecotone issues. It may be, though, that they're a more enjoyable representation when read occasionally instead of straight-through. All literary and of a similar tone and length, the collection starts to feel repetitive about two thirds of the way in, and I have to admit that I found myself getting bored at various moments as I read the last portion of the anthology. I don't think that this is a statement about those last stories so much as it is an acknowledgement that 400 pages (exactly) of similarly toned (with rare exceptions) literary stories (of the type polished out of MFA programs) is simply a bit too much, particularly when all are chosen out of a similar aesthetic.
All in all, this is a collection worth wandering through if you enjoy literary short stories grounded carefully in location, or if you just want a collection from which you can read the occasional story in between other reads. Without fail, all of the stories are worth reading and worth exploring, and that in itself is admirable. ( )
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GOLD IPPY (INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER) IN THE ANTHOLOGY CATEGORY In his introduction toThe Best American Short Stories 2008, Salman Rushdie calledEcotone one of a handful of journals on which "the health of the American short story depends." Now at the close of an award-winning first decade, the magazine has established itself as a preeminent venue for original short fiction from both recognized and emerging writers, with more than twenty stories from sixteen issues reprinted or noted in the Best American, New Stories from the South, Pushcart, and PEN/O. Henry series. With the publication of this anthology, Lookout Books makes a permanent home for the vital work ofEcotoneregular contributors Steve Almond, Rick Bass, Edith Pearlman, Ron Rash, Bill Roorbach, and Brad Watson, along with rising talents Lauren Groff, Ben Stroud, and Kevin Wilson, among others. In keeping with the magazine's mission to reimagine place, the collection explores transitional zones, the spaces where we are most threatened and alive. From a city fallen silent to a doomed nineteenth-century ship, from a startling birth in the woods to the bog burial of an adored archaeologist, from the loop of hair in a drowned trader's locket to the sanctity of pointy boots in a war zone, these stories make beautiful noise of our most fundamental human longings.
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All in all, this is a collection worth wandering through if you enjoy literary short stories grounded carefully in location, or if you just want a collection from which you can read the occasional story in between other reads. Without fail, all of the stories are worth reading and worth exploring, and that in itself is admirable. ( )