The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2

" How to get to England and then Europe generally to love the short story, and thus foster many literary journals and new writers ? " This is the question posed by Dave Eggers in his introduction to The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2. And just by opening this volume and reading a few lines or a choice page here and there, you are likely to find that in his selection Mr Eggers has half-answered his own question for you. All you need do now is take yourself over to the till, pass the book to the delightful sales assistant, hand over your money when requested to do so, then leave the stop secure in the knowledge that in your hand you carry the first flickering flames of a burgeoning short-story renaissance that will set Europe alight...