The problem with anthologies like this is that if the writers submit new stories, which they did in this case, they're just not going to be their best work. Those same writers are going to save their best work for their OWN collections of short stories.

I did not finish this book but I did read Hornby's, Chaon's, Crichton's, Gaiman's, Leonard's, and attempted to read King's (impenetrable). Leonard's. Leonard's was the only one that was good--it was quite good. The others were quite bad, really, just rather lame stories.

I do not want my odds to be one out six when reading a book of stories. That's like reading a novel and there's twenty good pages out of every one hundred and twenty. Perhaps, I'm reading the wrong stories but I just don't want to waste any more time.