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Asian Anthologies, Part III: Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs, The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan

Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan Edited by Helen Mitsios Foreword by Pico Iyer There are some pretty wild support groups out there. Acne support groups, jealousy support groups, lactose intolerance and tooth grinding. (And yes, these really do exist. I looked them up.) But ...

Asian Anthologies, Part II: The Lotus Singers, Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia

The Lotus Eaters: Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia Edited by Trevor Carolan Foreword by Urvashi Butalia To escape from poverty a woman sells of her body in order to get by. You’ve heard this story before, haven’t you? Actually, you haven’t. Niaz Zaman of Bangladesh’s story “The Daily Woman” is part ...

Asian Anthologies, Part I: Another Kind of Paradise, Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific

Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific Edited by Trevor Carolan Foreword by Frank Stewart and Pat Matsueda (from Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing ) It is generally agreed upon that, in general, short stories are…nice, like novels for those of us with short attention spans. They ...