{"id":469,"date":"2013-01-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=469"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:46:27","slug":"the-best-american-short-stories-of-2012-edited-by-tom-perotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"The Best American Short Stories of 2012, edited by Tom Perotta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BASS2012.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BASS2012-199x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just finished the 2012 edition of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Best_American_Short_Stories\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Best American Short Stories\">The Best American Short Stories<\/a> of 2012&#8243; (or to those who are hip &#8220;BASS 12&#8221;, just so you know, from one who is not hip.) I read BASS every year. I love short stories and there is always quite a variety depending on who the editor is that year. One can sample a bunch of different authors both known and unknown. What is cool is that the authors provide a brief bio and a few sentences about their included stories. Those are almost as interesting as the stories themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Of course in a buffet like this book there are going to be some stories I like and others I don&#8217;t. I finished all but one of the stories. The best ones to me was a little sci fi &#8220;Beautiful Monsters&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Puchner\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eric Puchner\">Eric Puchner<\/a> about genetically raised children who never grow up who encounter a full grown man for the first time (they smell awful!) and &#8220;What is Important is Feeling&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Wilson_%28The_Young_and_the_Restless%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Adam Wilson (The Young and the Restless)\">Adam Wilson<\/a> about an almost famous Indie Film hanger on and his frustrated career.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway if you like short stories check this out.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished the 2012 edition of &#8220;The Best American Short Stories of 2012&#8243; (or to those who are hip &#8220;BASS 12&#8221;, just so you know, from one who is not hip.) I read BASS every year. I love short stories and there is always quite a variety depending on who the editor is that year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[501,178,502,500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-fiction","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}