At the
Guardian Jon McGregor tagged his ten favorite contemporary short stories, including:
"Pee on Water" by Rachel B Glaser
This was my personal standout in the already very strong New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus. I’m increasingly drawn to any story that has a more expansive sense of a story’s possibility than the “snapshot of life” model insisted upon by the Carver/Hemingway school. This story begins at the dawn of time and ends round about now, which is expansive enough for anyone, I feel. It also has beautiful sentences, and there are not enough of those in the world.
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the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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