The Best American Short Stories 2011: The Best American Series [Kindle Edition] review

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"In this anthology series celebrating American short fiction annually since 1915, every year an alternative renowned writer chooses the best 20 stories of the year...Brooks does the honors impressively."
--Booklist
"Though many of the names here are familiar, this powerful new work re-establishes these authors' command from the form."
--Publishers Weekly "Another stellar selection from an anthology that has sustained high standards for 35 years..Each one of these stories could establish itself as some reader’s favorite."
--Kirkus, starred

In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2011, Geraldine Brooks draws the comparison from a well-told joke as well as a good short story. She writes, “Each form depends on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn inside a few deft strokes. There’s generally a setup, a reveal, a reversal, and a release . . . In the joke and inside short story, first and end are precisely anchored tent poles, and what lies between must pull so taut it twangs.”

The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here are brimming with deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often, like good jokes, surprising humor. Richard Powers’s “To the Measures Fall” is really a comic meditation about the uses of literature inside course of your life. In the satirical “The Sleep,” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as being a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser’s imagined town the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in “The Phantoms.” Allegra Goodman’s spare but beautiful “La Vita Nuova” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint across her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change inside the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in their story of a wealthy child who just isn't entirely comfortable using what his life has become. 

As Brooks pursued these richly imagined and varied landscapes she learned that “it was like walking in the best type of party, in places you can hole up inside a corner with old friends for any while, then launch out among interesting strangers.”