The Penguin Book of Modern American Short Story – 4/5 Stars Its important to emphasize that this is a collection from about 1970 on, so while it’s “modern” it means contemporary and while it’s contemporary, it’s decidedly more recent than the normal break in American lit at WWII. This is important because it means that a lot of very well-known and established short-fiction writers like John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Flannery O’Connor, and Bernard Malamud are not considered. Otherwise it would seem to me […]
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story — Et al
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman
Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
Agamemnon by Aeschyles
The Libation Bearers by Aeschyles
Eumenides by Aeschyles
Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
Still Alarm by George S Kaufman