Great Expectations (on Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin; Graham Swift’s Making an Elephant: Writing from Within; Heather McHugh’s Upgraded to Serious; David Baker’s Never-Ending Birds; Fred Chappell’s Shadow Box; and Jess Walter’s The Financial Lives of the Poets)
Reputations and Renewals (on John Updike’s My Father’s Tears; Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness; Lydia Davis’ The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis; The Best American Short Stories 2009, edited by Alice Sebold; and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the Year, 2009, edited by Laura Furman)
