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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: Lauren Groff well-deservedly becomes the first guest editor of the O. Henry and BASS series...
With the inclusion of a story-in-translation in The Best American Short Stories 2024 (BASS), the evolutions of the formats of the BASS and O. Henry anthologies have ended up in the same place: stories that are published in North American but written anywhere, that may have originally been written in a language other than English, with final selections made by a guest editor. In general, in the past, I preferred the O. Henry series when it was edited by Laura Furman, who consistently held to a high quality standard. Now that the formats are the same I suspect my preference will vary from year to year. This year, 2024, I’d rate them about the same: both are worth reading...
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