The New Granta Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford

“We may know him best as a novelist, the author of the prize-winning “Independence Day” (1995), and, more recently, “The Lay of the Land” (2006), but Richard Ford is a champion of the short story. A fine story writer himself, Ford has also done his best to encourage us to read more of the genre he describes as “a streamlined little verbal torpedo.” In 1990, he chose 20 for the annual “Best American Short Stories”; in 1992, he recommended another 39 for the first “Granta Book of the American Short Story”; in 1998, picked 11 for “The Granta Book of the American Long Story”; and here he is again with an entirely new selection of 44.’ Read the review at the London Telegraph.