{"id":173,"date":"2010-05-26T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/five-great-story-collections-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T00:27:11","slug":"five-great-story-collections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/five-great-story-collections-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Great Story Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton173\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-great-story-collections-2%2F&amp;text=Five%20Great%20Story%20Collections&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-great-story-collections-2%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/five-great-story-collections-2\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Today, on the Slate podcast called Culture Gabfest, Slate&#8217;s film critic Dana Stevens endorsed <em>The Book of Right and Wrong<\/em>. \u00a0(That&#8217;s their term for it, by the way, endorsing. \u00a0Which made me feel fancy!) \u00a0It was exciting to hear, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2254358\/\">hear it for yourself at Slate.com<\/a>. \u00a0(Listen to the whole thing, as it&#8217;s great, but my mention comes in at 42:55.)<\/p>\n<p>One interesting thing about the endorsement was hearing Dana Stevens say she doesn&#8217;t normally recommend story collections, because she finds most modern short stories static and shapeless. \u00a0You know what? \u00a0Me, too. \u00a0With that in mind, let me please direct you to five story collections, all from within the last 15 years, that are anything but static and shapeless. \u00a0You can&#8217;t go wrong with any of these.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3n12A0Q1I\/AAAAAAAAAL0\/3hC_OZTOFJs\/s1600\/wonders.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3n12A0Q1I\/AAAAAAAAAL0\/3hC_OZTOFJs\/s320\/wonders.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780679756446-3\">David Gates, <em>Wonders of the Invisible World<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3oDJQRaDI\/AAAAAAAAAL8\/Xj4k0zJl7qc\/s1600\/blindman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3oDJQRaDI\/AAAAAAAAAL8\/Xj4k0zJl7qc\/s320\/blindman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/2-9780375705571-9\">Amy Bloom, <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/2-9780375705571-9\">A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_9WKPEn15I\/AAAAAAAAAMc\/f8WUGVb-U_w\/s1600\/Lombreglia_cover.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_9WKPEn15I\/AAAAAAAAAMc\/f8WUGVb-U_w\/s320\/Lombreglia_cover.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780385263351-1\">Ralph Lombreglia, <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780385263351-1\">Men Under Water<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">(Note: This may be the only picture of this book on the entire Internet. No kidding.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3or5PM7mI\/AAAAAAAAAME\/Par-qzBwwu4\/s1600\/kellylink.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3or5PM7mI\/AAAAAAAAAME\/Par-qzBwwu4\/s320\/kellylink.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780156031875-2\">Kelly Link, <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/17-9780156031875-2\">Magic for Beginners<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3o_vqWdOI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/uOyWUV5BUOE\/s1600\/pastoralia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_2Wzgw4hUx68\/S_3o_vqWdOI\/AAAAAAAAAMM\/uOyWUV5BUOE\/s320\/pastoralia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">George Saunders, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9781573228725-14\">Pastoralia<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div>All links, by the way, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/\">Powell&#8217;s Books<\/a>, my favorite source for books of all kinds. \u00a0(This is not a paid endorsement.) \u00a0I&#8217;ve been using them since the early 90s, when you could email them your wish list and they&#8217;d send you a box of books.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton173\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-great-story-collections-2%2F&amp;text=Five%20Great%20Story%20Collections&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffive-great-story-collections-2%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>TweetShareToday, on the Slate podcast called Culture Gabfest, Slate&#8217;s film critic Dana Stevens endorsed The Book of Right and Wrong. \u00a0(That&#8217;s their term for it, by the way, endorsing. \u00a0Which made me feel fancy!) \u00a0It was exciting to hear, and you can hear it for yourself at Slate.com. \u00a0(Listen to the whole thing, as it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}