Anthony’s Reviews > The Best American Short Stories 2019: A Definitive Anthology of Contemporary and Literary Fiction Selected by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Anthony Doerr > Status Update
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Read Jim Shepard’s “Our Day of Grace.” I’ve always enjoyed epistolary works, especially when the letter writers’ voices feel authentic, and Shepard does a good job of that here.
— Jul 28, 2026 07:36AM
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Anthony
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Read “Omakase” by Weike Wang, a phenomenally strong final entry in what was a very strong collection of stories.
— Jul 28, 2026 09:42AM
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Read Jenn Alandy Trahan’s excellent “They Told Us Not to Say This”
— Jul 28, 2026 08:46AM
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Read Alexis Schaitkin’s “Natural Disasters,” the first story in this anthology that didn’t really work for me. There were some nice moments, but overall the whole thing felt like a big reach for profundity without much to back it up.
— Jul 27, 2026 08:23PM
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Read the fantastically imaginative, creepy, and incisive “Black Corfu” by Karen Russell.
— Jul 27, 2026 09:44AM
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Read Maria Reva’s fantastic, darkly funny “Letter of Apology”
— Jul 27, 2026 07:33AM
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Read the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Pity and Shame,” lovely, intimate portrait of two lonely souls.
— Jul 26, 2026 02:13PM