On the Best American Short Stories 2019
Pitlor, Heidi and Anthony Doerr, eds. The Best American Short Stories 2019. New York: Mariner Books, 2019. pp. 400. Paperback.
This is a good collection of stories published in periodicals throughout the course of 2019. Doerr’s tastes here are more consistently solid than the two most recent years. However, at the same time, none of the stories hit quite the same highs as 2020 or 2021. Nicole Krauss’s “Seeing Ershadi” is probably the one that stuck with the most.