Here’s a book I came across in the Barbican library recently:

As it happens, I prefer American short stories to British ones, on the whole (though I realise that’s a huge generalisation). I’m familiar with a few of the stories in this volume, which features some well-known names such as Raymond Carver, George Saunders, Grace Paley, Ursula Le Guin and Susan Sontag. Well worth checking out I’d say, which is why I checked it out of the library (chortle).