The Atlantic has posted it's list of books of the year, which includes two short story collections out of six books:
Nadine Gordimer's Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (which was actually published late last year and didn't make our short list)
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge
The only other fiction title on the list was Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. I'm sure Senior Editor C. Michael Curtis, who has long edited fiction at The Atlantic and is a member of The Story Prize Advisory Board, had a significant hand in these choices.
(Thanks again to the good folks at Readerville, which seems to be as abuzz with excitement about yearend best books lists as I am.)
