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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales ed. by Michael Chabon

- Abstract

Contemporary fiction is a deceptively fertile patch of ground. More new books are being published now than perhaps ever before in recorded memory; but it is clear that amid all this Potemkin-village profusion, critical standards have been more or less gleefully left behind.



About the Author

Sam Munson, who reviewed Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box in May 2006, is online editor of COMMENTARY.