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‘Best American Short Stories 2011,’ edited by Geraldine Brooks

Short story collection is solid if not complete

By Joseph Peschel

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  October 05, 2011

In a collection that fails to match the excellence of recent volumes chosen by Richard Russo and Salman Rushdie, Brooks errs by setting up criteria that may have proved too restrictive.

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