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    <body><![CDATA[I like anthologies: their heft and their variety. For the most part, I like this anthology; among my favorite selections are E.L. Doctorow's &quot;A House on the Plains,&quot; William Gay's &quot;The Paperhanger,&quot; and Joyce Carol Oates' &quot;Landfill&quot; (which one should not read before bed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44294967">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a Joyce Carol Oates fan, so was worried (and rightly so) about an anthology of stories that she had selected.  To me, Oates is heavy handed, looks at the world from a morbid and sinister perspective, and always goes for the tawdry and degrading detail.  Unfortunately, that is also true of m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58416423">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SO much fun- highly recommend.  I haven't had such a good time reading in years.  It was wonderful to get a fairly large sample of authors through this book- I have a tendency to stick with the same authors and genres for long periods, but after reading this I have so many &quot;can't wait to reads&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51632453">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Worth reading, each successive story linked to the one before it with a theme, idea, or obscure word, and I discovered some great authors that I didn't know about.  There is, however, a glut of graphic descriptions of gay sex and pregnancy, most of which made them both seem exceptionally unpleasant]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Best story so far is &quot;The Hermit's Story&quot; by Rick Bass. Also a great Ann Beattie story called &quot;Lavande.&quot; Only 9 stories into the 48 in the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has a lot of great stories from (mostly) currently working American authors. It's nice to have a compilation of people who aren't dead yet, and are actually writing about the world we live in. <br/><br/>The range of the pieces is pretty broad though, so some doozies ended up in the book (like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43565632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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