In no particular order:"G-String," Nicola Barker. Love! Love! Love! A woman puts on a g-string to impress her lover and ends up using it to jury-rig his broken windshield wiper. In the process she learns that she doesn't need his validation. A lovely, witty character arc accomplished in a few compac...
I'm so glad that my teacher of "Reading Like A Writer" chose this anthology of short stories for our class. I learned a ton about my own writing through analyzing craft techniques such as family, place, and dialogue, of other writers. This collection is now a night stand staple, which I can't wait...
This is excellent, much better than Poetry Magazine's anthology and probably better than "The Body Electric," American Poetry Review's very good anthology. Some beauties and finds inside, especially John Logan's "Believe It" for me, but also all kinds of other flavors, too.