Filling time till kickoff

 Even the most blase among us are getting antsy Sunday afternoon, hours before the biggest spectacle in America begins. With most of the food prep out of the way, I'm reading "Best American Short Stories of 2008" edited by Salman Rusdie (Houghton Mifflin, $14). Interestingly the source of most stories (four) was Harper's with New Yorker one behind and Atlantic and Southern Review one behind the NY'er. Raises the question of, " Where do we readers find new short stories these days?" The commercial magazines are living on the economic edge and the smaller literary reviews depend on institutional or subscriber support.

 


Posted Feb 01 2009, 03:53 PM by Bob Hoover