New Stories from the South
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For seventeen years, New Stories from the South has given readers a diverse sampling of the best stories about the south. Like the television show Law and Order, the cast changes every season but the quality of the finished product never suffers. The characters in these stories aren't the stereotypical characters with no teeth and living down dirt roads in trailers on the verge of collapse. These are intelligently written stories about people with genuine moral conflicts, and they’re told in voices that are more deeply rooted in tradition than those in any other part of the country.

The 2002 edition contains stories about Confederate Soldiers attempting to desert and a young girl hiding from Sherman’s Army in a bombed out house. But not everything is about the War of Northern Aggression. There are also stories like the one that tells of a father trying to win his son’s teacher’s heart with phony treasures at show and tell. Other stories explore a myth of Memphis music, the love a man has for his ex-wife, how a fall from an oil rig changes one man forever, and the repercussions of writing about one’s own family. The stories are not all directly set in the south but all have some link to the region that makes the reader understand they could not be about people from any other place.

Every year, this anthology is edited by Shannon Ravenel, a native of South Carolina. Before she began this series in 1986 she had spent thirteen years as the editor of The Best American Short Stories. Now she finds the stories for this anthology by scouring exactly one hundred popular and literary magazines to discover the stories that ring the truest about the culture of the south. The series never disappoints.

This book is a great glimpse at some of the best short fiction writers working today. I recommend that you add it to your list of books to buy and read.



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