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Title: New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2003 (New Stories from the South) by Shannon Ravenel, Roy Blount ISBN: 1-56512-395-6 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Not a Bad Tale in the Bunch
Comment: Many of the contemporary short stories I read I don't especially care for. Too often, I leave them with the same feeling with which I approached. Which is why this volume is a something of a mystery, meaning that I enjoyed every one of its tales. I especially appreciated Viswanathan's "Cool Wedding" and Vice's "Report from Junction." I even very much liked Prather's "The Faithful," and I stress "even" because the author once wrote a column which appeared in my weekly hometown paper and which I found to be wretched. Not so with this story. I look forward to next year's collection and pray the tastes of the editor will again align with my own.

Rating: 4
Summary: my first year with this series
Comment: This year I decided I'd like to pick up the New Stories from the South and check it out this year. Not bad. There were a handful of really good stories and a handful of really bad, and quite a few in the middle. It's not a bad addition to reading the Best American Short Stories (especially since both Pushcart and the O. Henry Awards are weakening). I won't say this is the best selection I've come across, but it's pretty good. I look forward to next year's edition.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good and bad taste
Comment: Good: NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH, which I think is surpassing BEST AMERICAN and O'HENRY as the country's preeminent short story collection. I haven't had a chance to sit down with the 2003 edition, but I'm looking forward to it.

Bad: Shrill comments from one of the contributors (see below). I don't expect Patricia Lear to be this book's most objective supporter, and I also don't expect an author to react to the reality of dissenting opinions with so little class.

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