Status Updates From The Best American Short Sto...

Raymond Carver (Cathedral) is good stuff, where a man deals with his jealousy about his wife having a male friend.

Susan Sontag with longterm illness of her friend. Cynthia Ozick, WWII sadness.

Peter Taylor, The Old Forest: masterful layer by layer revealing of an incident and the reader's gradual shift in understanding that event. Some resonance with themes of Jane Austen.

Favorites so far: the shawl; Cynthia ozick/ john Updike: deaths of distant friends/

Crash Davis may be right about Sonia Sontag's novels, but the short story in this addition is fantastic.

I'm looking forward to reading the Carver story, it may be the only reason I purchased this edition. I really enjoyed the story in Mr. Handel's AP class, a mere twenty years ago.