Sweet Land Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: E. L. Doctorow
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Midwest, American Dream, West, U.S., Washington, D.C., Ambition
E. L. Doctorow, author of Ragtime (1975), Loon Lake (1980), and Billy Bathgate (1989), is much better known as a novelist than as a short-story writer. Acknowledging that the novel has always been his typical rhythm, Doctorow said in an interview after the publication of Sweet Land Stories that while editing Best American Stories: 2000, he discovered that many authors were not writing the tight, epiphanic Chekhovian story but rather were going back to the more leisurely, plot-based story typical of the nineteenth century. The result of this realization...
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