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Title: 2 stars
Review: Most of these stories appeared in the "New Yorker." The "New Yorker" gets up to 15,000 unsolicited fiction manuscripts a year. When I read stories as mediocre as these, I think, "There has to be better stories among the 15,000 sent to the "New Yorker." I like a lot about the student-at-the-professor's-house story (I forget its title). Humor comes forth. But the others have that incestuous MFA-writer's-program-graduate feel to them. They are precious, politically correct, and rather dull. And they hardly ever have endings. They just kind of peter out. Perhaps that's being "literary" by not using "standard" endings. But stories that look like a last page is missing, are not to be recommended, and I don't recommend this tome.
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