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The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms
Introduction by Richard Powers
Picador, 386 pages, $15 paper
“So why not stories arranged by the length of available time?” is the question posed by Richard Powers in his introduction to stories, poems and little literary pieces by the likes of William Maxwell, Junot Diaz, Edward P. Jones and Alice Munro. Just last night, Ethan Canin kept me company during ice-hockey practice.