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12036667 No.12036667 [Reply] [Original]

Which will be the superior collection /lit/? Consider the brands as well as the nationalities

>> No.12036745
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>> No.12036771

>>12036745
You sick twisted piece of shit

>> No.12036835

>>12036667
I have read some of the earlier Penguin selection and they were good. The mini-bios of the writers from Hensher were well written. It maybe was too long, with some cuttable selections there just to make sure Great Writer X was represented regardless of whether they were a short story master.

>> No.12036890

>>12036667
Whichever one is compiled by people living outside of the country in question, it's very rare for a resident of a country to be able objectively evaluate it's merits or shortcomings

>> No.12036898

>>12036890
Shrewd statement
>https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/philip-hensher-on-the-penguin-book-of-the-contemporary-british-short-story/

>> No.12036940

Depends on the age of the stories in the collection. If they're mostly pre-WW2 then the British one will be better; if it's mostly post-WW2 the American one will be.

>> No.12037242

>>12036940
They're both post-WW2. There is a pre WW2 British one, but I don't know if Ford has done that

>> No.12037281

>Ford once spat on Colson Whitehead after a negative review of "A Multitude of Sins", resulting in speculation that the incident may have been racially motivated rather than a matter of critical differences.[31]
Extremely based 2bh. Based and *spits on you*

>> No.12037307

>>12036667
Granta, because it isn't British and it isn't Penguin.

>> No.12037311

>>12037307
>Granta, because it isn't British

>> No.12038077

Bump

>> No.12038155

>>12036745
I miss the "fucking leaf" meme

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>>12038155
Canada has plenty of talented people considering the population, but our cultural imperialist southern neighbour steals them as their own.
I don't think a Canadian short story collection would be a joke, but I also can't point to many authors that would be in it other than Alice Munro, Farley Mowat, & Leacock. We didn't read a lot of Canadian content in high school.

>> No.12039963

>>12037307
>>12037311
Dubs confirm ya dummy