Top 10 * 3 [Short Stories]

Short story collections are the source of life. We believe Geoffrey Chaucer said that. Or maybe it was Walt Whitman. Some of us think Edgar A. Poe started it all (this thing called the "modern short story"), but at the end of the day we know there's a campfire and a tale and more recent concerns about "incident" and "flash" are just superficial preoccupations that pale beside the most important question: What happens next?

Three top ~10 lists from TDR's Editor

Recent Canadian short story collections (by writers who are not Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields or Bonnie Burnard):

19 Knives by Mark Anthony Jarman
16 Categories of Desire by Douglas Glover
White Buick by Greg Hollingshead
Angel Wing Splash Pattern by Richard Van Camp
All the Anxious Girls on Earth by Zsuzsi Gartner
We So Seldom Look On Love by Barbara Gowdy
Fresh Girls and Other Stories by Evelyn Lau
Fiction for Lovers by Tony Burgess
Please by Peter Darbyshire
Smell It by Hal Niedzviecki
One Good Story, That One by Thomas King
Marine Life by Linda Svendsen

Short story collections you should *definitely* read before you die:

The Stories of John Cheever
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (or anything else by her)
Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
60 Stories by Donald Bartheme
The Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes by Terry Southern and/or Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon

The Editor's fav's from five years of TDR:

Gabe Camozzi, Jacket Walk
Tim Conley, The Watch
Corin Cummings, excerpt from "Night Support"
Paul Glennon, The Man Who Would Not Believe
Phil Jones, Bushed
Shane Jones, Figure Four Leg Lock
James Lewelling, Monkey Boxes
Kabeera McCorkle, Evidence
Michael O'Neill, Poema Woman
Gerard Varni, The Hole Between Them