“…in such seminal literary publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Harper’s.
America was uncomfortably settling into its role as a nuclear superpower …
… riveted by the revelations of Joseph McCarthy’s Un-American Activities committee, Freudian psychoanalysis, the Beats, rock ‘n roll, racial genocide and the bomb.
Such fertile territory seemed impossible to replicate and many of those great literary magazines have since faded to oblivion, others no longer regularly publish short fiction.
Yet a recent explosion of literary quarterlies and online journals have heralded a renaissance of this classic American form.
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy … and Charles D’Ambrosio’s The Dead Fish Museum …
… are examples of contemporary American short story collections by young writers working at the height of their powers.
The great American short story is dead;…
… long live the American short story…”
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