The Guardian echoes a suggestion of ours from earlier this month, saying that 2009 “was the year of the short story.” They add, “the consensus running through the end-of-year reviews is that it’s been a vintage year for short fiction.” On top of the releases we already mentioned, they cite collections from Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, James Lasdun, and AL Kennedy–plus the reissued versions of Raymond Carver’s stories. They praise David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, “supposedly a novel [but] originally published as a story collection in America.”Guardian
