Short story time

The blog "The Millions" has listed (alphabetically, not by merit) reader-selected "best short story collections" - these are all single-author collections. I think it looks like a good list to peruse. I've read the Carver and Joyce collections cited, and have been meaning to read the Alice Munro and John Cheever collections.

I also like those "Best American Short Stories" (BASS) collections - series editor Katrina Kenison. That is my dream job - ranking the best stories published in a given year. The 1997 edition was edited by Annie Proulx. The 1992 edition edited by Robert Stone is also on the home bookshelf. I also have one with a brown cover that I can't find on Amazon.

The 1995 edition includes "Hand Jive" which is one of the few stories in these 3-4 BASS collections on my shelf which is as memorable as, say, Carver's "Cathedral," which may be the perfect short story. I don't recall whether the story Cathedral was incorporated into Robert Altman's loose adaptation of the collection, "Short Cuts". The only reason I'd see that movie again is to see the wonderful performance by Jack Lemmon.